իքեն

Armenian

Alternative forms

• իք^յա̈ն (ikʻ^yän)
• իքէն (ikʻēn) — traditional orthography

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ایكن (iken).

Pronunciation

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /iˈkʰen/, [ikʰén]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /iˈken/, [ikʰén]

Adverb

իքեն • (ikʻen) (dialectal)

1. while, whilst

   Synonyms: մինչ (minčʻ), մինչդեռ (minčʻdeṙ)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “իքէն”, 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, page 149