քավթառքոսի

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • քավթառքոս (kʻavtʻaṙkʻos), քավթարքոսի (kʻavtʻarkʻosi), քավթառ քոսի (kʻavtʻaṙ kʻosi)
  • քաւթառքոսի (kʻawtʻaṙkʻosi), քաւթառքոս (kʻawtʻaṙkʻos) traditional orthography

Etymology

Related to Udi кафтӏаркуси (kafṭarkusi), Turkish kaftarküş, kâftarküskü (Kars), kaftaküski (Artvin), Azerbaijani kaftarkus, kaftarküs. The direction of borrowing between these terms is uncertain. The first element in all of them is Persian کفتار (kaftâr, hyena). For the second element compare Persian کوسه (kuse), Udi куси (kusi), Old Armenian քոս (kʻos).

Pronunciation

Noun

քավթառքոսի • (kʻavtʻaṙkʻosi) (Tbilisi, Karabakh, Ghazakh)

  1. hyena
    Synonym: բորենի (boreni)
  2. (derogatory) old hag, witch
    Synonym: ջադու (ǰadu)

Declension

  • քավթառ (kʻavtʻaṙ)

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “քաւթառքոսի”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 1107a
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “քաւթար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 567a
  • Ananyan, Vaxtʻang (1961) Hayastani kendanakan ašxarhə [The fauna of Armenia] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: HayPetHrat, page 421
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 791–792
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2011) “Thoughts on Wolf, Hyena, and Bear”, in Jasmine Dum-Tragut and Uwe Bläsing, editors, Cultural, Linguistic and Ethnological Interrelations In and Around Armenia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pages 94–95
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “քավթառ քօսի”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 789a
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2012), “քավթառքոսի”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume 7, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 118b
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.