գցել

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Armenian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Dialectal development of Old Armenian ձգեմ (jgem, to throw). The slang sense is a semantic loan from Russian ки́нуть (kínutʹ).

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գցել (gcʻel) (Eastern Armenian)

  1. to throw; cast; hurl, fling; chuck
    անկողինը գցելankoġinə gcʻelto make the bed
  2. to drop, allow to fall
  3. (slang) to con, bunco, hoodwink

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References[edit]

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ձիգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press