Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Armenian բոկեղ (bokeġ).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

բոկեղ (bokeġ)

  1. simit (a kind of round bread)

Declension edit

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բոկեղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 463

Middle Armenian edit

Etymology edit

According to Ačaṙyan, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g-, whence also dialectal բոկ (bok, burnt khoriz (a filling that consists of flour, butter and sugar)).[1][2] He also compares Udi бокӏи (boḳi, burnt; burnt bread), бокӏсун (boḳsun, to burn), but concludes that either the similarity is accidental or they are borrowed from Armenian.[3][2]

Noun edit

բոկեղ (bokeġ)

  1. a kind of round soft bread[4]
    • 14th century, Grigor Tatʿewacʿi, Girkʿ harcʿmancʿ :
      Իսկ պան բաղարջն է նաշիհն զանգեալ իւղով․ և որպէս բոկեղն եփեալ ի թոնրի
      Isk pan baġarǰn ē našihn zangeal iwġov; ew orpēs bokeġn epʻeal i tʻonri
    • 17th century, Eremia Mełrecʿi, Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] Պ.258:
      պղակունդ· բոկեղ
      pġakund· bokeġ

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: բոկեղ (bokeġ)
  • Romani: bokoli

References edit

  1. ^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 42–43
  2. 2.0 2.1 Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բոկեղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 463
  3. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “բոկ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 200a
  4. ^ Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “բոկեղ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 123a

Further reading edit