կենճ

Armenian

Etymology

From Middle Armenian կէնճ (kēnč), from Ottoman Turkish گنج (genc).

Adjective

կենճ • (kenč) (dialectal)

  1. young
    Synonym: երիտասարդ (eritasard)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 33:[1]
      կանճ․ ճօվէնէ
      kanč; čōvēnē
      կանճ (kanč) = giovane

Noun

կենճ • (kenč) (dialectal)

  1. young man, youth
    Synonym: երիտասարդ (eritasard)

Alternative forms

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 230

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