ժաժիկ

Armenian

Etymology

Compare Northern Kurdish jajî, jajik (a kind of cheese),[1] ژاژ (jaj, name of a herb used to flavour cheese), and Persian ژاژ (žâž, thyme). For the interchangeability of plant-names with ‘cheese’ or ‘milk’, compare Armenian պանիր (panir, cheese) and dialectal պանրխոտ (panrxot, thyme), or կաթնախոտ (katʻnaxot, literally milk-grass), կաթնածաղիկ (katʻnacaġik, literally milk-flower).[2] Possibly related to Ottoman Turkish جاجیگ (cacıg).

Pronunciation

Noun

ժաժիկ • (žažik)[3]

  1. (dialectal) zhazhik (a cheese-like substance, produced by cooking and straining tan and adding salt and greens)

Declension

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “ժաժիկ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
  2. Asatrian, Garnik (2012) “Marginal remarks on the history of some Persian words”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 16, number 1, page 115
  3. Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “ժաժիկ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
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