մեյմուն

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Armenian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish میمون (meymûn, maymun), from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn).

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Noun[edit]

մեյմուն (meymun) (dialectal)

  1. monkey
    Synonym: կապիկ (kapik)
  2. (derogatory) clown
    Synonym: ծաղրածու (caġracu)
  3. (derogatory) actor
    Synonym: դերասան (derasan)

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Further reading[edit]

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “մայմուն”, 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