Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

A Zan borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Georgian-Zan *toq-. The unadapted form թոխի (tʻoxi) found only in Lori is from the Georgian reflex of the same.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

թոխր (tʻoxr) (dialectal)

  1. pick, pickaxe; mattock; hoe
    Coordinate term: բրիչ (bričʻ)
  2. (Hamshen) hoeing session, loosening of soil with a hoe

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References edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “թոխր”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 372b
  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1951) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: State Press of Armenia (HayPetHrat), page 224
  • Климов, Г. А. (1988) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. III [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. III]”, in Этимология[1] (in Russian), number 1985, Moscow: Nauka, page 155 of 151–165
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 73
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “թօխուր”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 215c
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “թոխի”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 124a
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “թոխր”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 124b
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  • Vardanyan, Sergey (2016) “Tʻurkʻiayi kronapʻox hamšenahayericʻ graṙvac mi ergi masin [On a Song Recorded from Muslim Hamshentsi Armenians of Turkey]”, in H. Ačaṙyani cnnd­yan 140-am­yakin nvirvac miǰaz­gayin gi­tažoġovi nyu­­tʻe­ri žoġovacu[3] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, pages 359–360
  • Vaux, Bert (2007) “Homshetsma: The language of the Armenians of Hamshen”, in Hovann H. Simonian, editor, The Hemshin: History, society and identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey (Peoples of the Caucasus)‎[4], London and New York: Routledge, page 272