Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Armenian կիպ (kip). Doublet of քիփ (kʻipʻ), borrowed from the Turkic cognates.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

կիպ (kip) (superlative ամենակիպ)

  1. tight, compact

Declension edit

Adverb edit

կիպ (kip)

  1. tightly, compactly

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Middle Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Armenian *կիպ (*kip), reflected in the verb կբնիմ (kbnim), borrowed from Iranian. Compare Persian کیپ (kîp), Kurdish kîp, کِپ (kip, tight) and the other Iranian borrowings: Azerbaijani kip, dialectal Turkish kip (tight), Karaim kip (firm, strong). Ultimately perhaps from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (to grab, stick to); note the senses of կպչել (kpčʻel).

Noun edit

կիպ (kip)

  1. tight, compact

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: կիպ (kip)

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “կպիլ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 610a
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կիպ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 592a
  • Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 557
  • Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “կիպ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 373b
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “կիպ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎[1], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 363
  • Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1899) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects], volume II (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1397