կթխայ

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

• կթխա (ktʻxa), կթղայ (ktʻġay), կթղա (ktʻġa)

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܩܕܚܐ (qdḥˀ), from Arabic قَدَح (qadaḥ).

Noun

կթխայ • (ktʻxay)

1. drinking vessel

Derived terms

• կթղայընկեր (ktʻġayənker), կթղընկեր (ktʻġənker)
• կթխակ (ktʻxak)

Descendants

• Armenian: կթխա (ktʻxa), կթղա (ktʻġa); կթխայ (ktʻxay) — traditional orthography; գխտա (gxta) — obsolete

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կթղայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 584ab
• Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “կթխայ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 372b
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “կթղայ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎^[1], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, pages 361–362
• Seidel, Ernst (1908) Mechithar’s, des Meisterarztes aus Her, ‘Trost bei Fiebern’: nach dem Venediger Druck vom Jahre 1832 zum ersten Male aus dem Mittelarmenischen übersetzt und erläutert (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, § 404, page 272
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “կթղայ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 345a