ելքեն

Armenian
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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یلكن (yelken).

Noun

ելքեն • (elkʻen) (dialectal)

  1. sail
    Synonym: առագաստ (aṙagast)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 16:[1]
      ելքէն․ վէլօ
      elkʻēn; vēlō
      ելքէն (elkʻēn) = velo

Alternative forms
  • ելքէն (elkʻēn), յէլքէն (yēlkʻēn), յէլքյա̈ն (yēlkʻyän)

References
  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 220

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “յէլքէն”, 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
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