خرچین

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Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Armenian խրչան (xrčʻan, “skittish”).[1]

Adjective[edit]

خرچین • (hırçın)

  1. violent-tempered, obstinate, cross, peevish

Descendants[edit]

  • Turkish: hırçın
  • → Armenian: խըռչըլ (xəṙčʻəl), խռչըլ (xṙčʻəl)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “խիրտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 271ab

Further reading[edit]

  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § D16, page 164
  • Eren, Hasan (1999) “hırçın”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 178a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خرچین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 535
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خرچین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 838
  • Tietze, Andreas (2009) “hırçın”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 307a
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