գռեհիկ

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Armenian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Armenian գռեհիկ (gṙehik).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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գռեհիկ (gṙehik) (superlative ամենագռեհիկ)

  1. coarse, rough, rude, impolite
  2. unrefined, obnoxious, intolerable
  3. vulgar, crude, primitive

Declension

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Adverb

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գռեհիկ (gṙehik)

  1. coarsely, roughly, rudely, impolitely
  2. unrefinedly, obnoxiously, intolerably
  3. vulgarly, crudely, primitively

Derived terms

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Old Armenian

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Etymology

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From գռեհ (gṙeh, street, common road) +‎ -իկ (-ik), which is of the same Iranian origin as գրոհ (groh, mob) and Old Georgian გლეხი (glexi, peasant).

Noun

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գռեհիկ (gṙehik)

  1. commoner, pleb, layman

Declension

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Adjective

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գռեհիկ (gṙehik)

  1. vulgar, plebeian, common

Descendants

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  • Armenian: գռեհիկ (gṙehik) (learned)

Further reading

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գռեհ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գռեհիկ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 456
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գռեհիկ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy