Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish پاچه (paça), from Persian پاچه (pâče).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

փաչա (pʻačʻa) (dialectal)

  1. trotters of sheep
    Synonym: տոտիկ (totik)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 60:[1]
      փաչէք․ կամպէ
      pʻačʻēkʻ; kampē
      փաչէք (pʻačʻēkʻ) = gambe
  2. a խաշ (xaš) made from trotters of sheep
  3. the lower part of a leg of a pair of trousers or drawers
    Synonyms: տոտ (tot), փողք (pʻoġkʻ)
  4. thigh
    Synonym: ազդր (azdr)
  5. groin
    Synonyms: ցայլք (cʻaylkʻ), աճուկ (ačuk)

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References edit

  1. ^ Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 246, incorrectly deriving from Ottoman Turkish باجاق (bacak)

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “փաչա”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 346
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2010), “փաչա”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume VI, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 347a