կապիճ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian կապիճ (kapič). Doublet of կապիծ (kapic) and կապեճ (kapeč).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

կապիճ (kapič)

  1. (historical) a grain measure, equal to 1/10 գրիւ (griw)
  2. (anatomy) eye socket
    Synonym: ակնակապիճ (aknakapič)

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Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

An Iranian borrowing: compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kpyc, a grain measure).[1][2][3][4][5] See Arabic قَفِيز (qafīz) for more.

In the dialects survives in Moks կապաիճ (kapaič, unit of measure equal to 5–6 kilograms),[6] Mush կապեճ (kapeč, hay of grass and wheat),[7] Hamshen կապճակ (kapčak, tithe of wheat given to miller) and կապիծ (kapic), the latter a borrowing from Laz კაპიწი (ǩap̌iǯi).[2]

Noun[edit]

կապիճ (kapič)

  1. a grain measure, equal to 1/10 գրիւ (griw)
  2. a wine measure
  3. (anatomy) eye socket
  4. gaiters or some kind of torture instrument for the legs
  5. a kind of tax

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 165
  2. 2.0 2.1 Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կապիճ”, 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 525ab
  3. ^ Schmitt, Rüdiger (1983) “Iranisches Lehngut im Armenischen”, in Revue des Études Arméniennes (in German), volume 17, page 91
  4. ^ 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 887
  5. ^ Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 250
  6. ^ Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2004), “կապիճ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 44a
  7. ^ Amatuni, Sahak (1912) “բարդոց”, in Hayocʻ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 91b

Further reading[edit]

  • Ritner, Robert Kriech (1996) “The Earliest Attestation of the kpḏ-Measure”, in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, volume 2, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, →ISBN, pages 683–688
  • Schmitt, Rüdiger (2007) “Brust, M.: Die indischen und iranischen Lehnwörter im Griechischen”, in Kratylos[1], volume 52, page 82