Armenian edit

 
An Armenian xnocʿi in Artsakh

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Etymology edit

From խին (xin) +‎ -ոց (-ocʿ) +‎ (-i). The compound is attested already in Middle Armenian.

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Noun edit

խնոցի (xnocʿi)

  1. butter churn
    Synonym: (dialectal) ձձում (jjum)

Usage notes edit

  • It is hung on ropes that are fastened around the left and right ends, and usually pushed back and forth by two people.

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Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “խնոցի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 350–351
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836), “խնոցի”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 955c
  • Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, § 149, pages 82–83
  • Bläsing, Uwe (2007), “Armenian in the vocabulary and culture of the Turkish Hemshinli”, in Hovann H. Simonian, editor, The Hemshin: History, society and identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey (Peoples of the Caucasus)‎[1], London and New York: Routledge, page 287
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “xinûsî”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 661
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 260, page 64
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (2000), “խնոցի”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʿ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʿeancʿ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʿ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 296
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “խնոցի”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 342a