Armenian

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Etymology

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From Georgian თრევა (treva, dragging (on ground); forcibly moving; loafing about, roaming; cursing, dragging (somebody's name) through the mud).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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թրև (tʻrew) (dialectal, Yerevan, Tbilisi)

  1. Only used in թրեւ գալ (tʻrew gal)
  2. Only used in թրեւ ածել (tʻrew acel)
  3. Only used in թրեւ տալ (tʻrew tal)

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References

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “թրև”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 384a
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 69
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944) “թրեւ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 130b
  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “თრევა”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary[1], London: Garnett Press