փիս

Armenian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Via Ottoman Turkish پیس (pis) and Azerbaijani pis from Persian پیس (pis).

Adjective

փիս • (pʻis) (superlative ամենափիս) (dialectal)

  1. bad
    փիս խոսքերpʻis xoskʻercurse words, profanity
    փիս բերանpʻis beranfoul-mouthed
Declension

Adverb

փիս • (pʻis) (dialectal)

  1. severely
Derived terms
  • փիսախոս (pʻisaxos)
  • փիսանալ (pʻisanal)
  • փիսբերան (pʻisberan)
Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “փիս”, 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 352
  • փիս”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “փիս”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, pages 775–776

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Georgian ფისი (pisi).

Noun

փիս • (pʻis) (Akhaltsikhe, Tbilisi, Ganja)

  1. resin from the bark of a tree
    Synonym: խեժ (xež)
  2. (transferred sense) any sticky, viscous substance
  3. melted tar used hot to treat leprosy
Declension
Alternative forms
Further reading
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1945) “փիս”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 500b, found only in this dictionary and therefore probably a word of Malxaseancʻ's native Akhaltsikhe dialect
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2010), “փիսի”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume VI, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 386b
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