Armenian edit

 
ջեբ

Etymology edit

From Middle Armenian ճէպ (čēp), from Ottoman Turkish جیب (ceb, cep), from Arabic جَيْب (jayb, pocket).

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Noun edit

ջեբ (ǰeb) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. pocket
    Synonym: գրպան (grpan)
    ջեբը դնելǰebə dnelto put in the pocket
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 39:[1]
      ճէպ․ ըսքարցէլլայ
      čēp; əskʻarcʻēllay
      ճէպ (čēp) = scarsella

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References edit

  1. ^ Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 233

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “ճէպ”, 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