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Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish باجاناق (bacanak) (Turkish bacanak).

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բաջանաղ (baǰanaġ)

  1. (dialectal) brother-in-law (wife’s sister’s husband)
    Synonym: քենակալ (kʻenakal)

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Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “պաճանախ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 284