հանաք

Armenian

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic حَنَك (ḥanak, jaw), in some dialects via Northern Kurdish henek (joke). The sense development is ‘jaw, chin’ → ‘gab, chitchat, chinwag’ → ‘joke’. For such a development compare Turkish çene (chin; talkativeness).

Pronunciation

Noun

հանաք • (hanakʻ)

  1. (dialectal) joke
    Synonym: կատակ (katak)
    հանաք անելhanakʻ anelto joke
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 35:[1]
      հանաքանել[sic]․ պուռլարէ
      hanakʻanel[sic]; puṙlarē
      հանաք անել (hanakʻ anel) = burlare

Declension

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 231

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “հանակ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 636a
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “միահանէք”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 319b
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 91
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944) “հանաք”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 42c
  • Tietze, Andreas (2009) “hanek / henek”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 250a
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