քարճիկ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Armenian քարճիկ (kʿarčik).

Pronunciation

Noun

քարճիկ (kʿarčik)

  1. gizzard
    Synonym: մկանային ստամոքս (mkanayin stamokʿs)
    քարճիկ չունենալkʿarčik čʿunenalto be fearful, easily scared; to be unable to keep a secret
  2. (Bulanık) kidney
    Synonyms: պլոճիկ (pločik), երիկամ (erikam)

Declension

Descendants

  • Turkish: kurcuk, kurçik

See also

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), քարճիկ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 1102b
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), քարճիկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 562ab
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 156

Middle Armenian

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing + -իկ (-ik).[1] Compare synonymous Persian کراجه (karâja),[2] کراز (korâz),[3] whence also Arabic كيارجة (kiyārja)[2].

Noun

քարճիկ (kʿarčik)

  1. gizzard

Descendants

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), քարճիկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 562ab
  2. Fīrūzābādī (1834) Al-uqiyānūs al-basīt, volume III, translated from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish by Aḥmad ʻĀṣim, 2nd edition, Constantinople, page 255
  3. Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), کراز”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1020

Further reading

  • Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), քարճիկ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 805a
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (2000), քարճիկ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʿ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʿeancʿ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʿ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 741
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