ճանճ

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • ճանջ (čanǰ) (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Armenian ճանճ (čanč).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

ճանճ (čanč)

  1. fly (insect)

Declension

Derived terms


Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • ճանջ (čanǰ)

Etymology

A Zan borrowing. Compare Mingrelian ჭანჯი (č̣anǯi), ჭანდი (č̣andi), Laz მ-ჭაჯი (m-č̣aǯi, fly), Old Georgian მ-წერი (m-c̣eri, fly; insect). Klimov reconstructs Proto-Kartvelian *mc̣₁er- for these.

Noun

ճանճ (čanč)

  1. fly (insect)
    • 5th century, Bible, Ecclesiastes 10.1:
      Ճանճք մեռեալք զազրացուցանեն զեւղս անուշունս []
      Čančkʿ meṙealkʿ zazracʿucʿanen zewłs anušuns []
      Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench
    եղանակ ճանճիցełanak čančicʿfly-time
    ծիրտ ճանճիցcirt čančicʿfly-blow
    սատակիչ ճանճիցsatakičʿ čančicʿfly-bane
    զճանճ փիղ գործելzčanč pʿił gorcelto exaggerate, to make mountains of mole-hills

Declension

Derived terms

  • ճանճահանած (čančahanac)
  • ճանճաճերմակ (čančačermak)
  • ճանճեան (čančean)
  • ճանճենի (čančeni)
  • ճանճիկ (čančik)
  • ճանճիռն (čančiṙn)
  • ճանճիւռն (čančiwṙn)
  • ճանճկէն (čančkēn)
  • ճանճոց (čančocʿ)
  • ճանջիռն (čanǰiṙn)
  • շանաճանճ (šanačanč)

Descendants

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), ճանճ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 184–185
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), ճանճ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 170c
  • Klimov, G. A. (1964) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kartvelʹskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 141
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), ճանճ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 437b
  • Riabinin, Michel (1898), “Notes de lexicographie géorgienne. Examen du matériel emprunté”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, volume X, page 21
  • Shanidze A. (1981) txzulebani tormeṭ ṭomad [Works in Twelve Volumes], volume II, Tbilisi: Metsniereba Publishers, page 493
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