tixa

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Northern Kurdish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Armenian տղա (tġa, boy).

Noun[edit]

tiẍa

  1. an Armenian or, in general, a Christian boy

Further reading[edit]

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “տղայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 413a
  • Îzolî, D. (1992), “tıxa”, in Ferheng : Kurdî-Tirkî. Türkçe-Kürtçe, compiled by a native of the Dersim region, Istanbul: Deng Yayınları, →ISBN, page 422b
  • Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879), “تقا”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 101a
  • Yusuf Ziyaeddin Paşa (1978), “tıxa”, in Kürtçe-Türkçe Sözlük [Kurdish–Turkish Dictionary], translated into Turkish by Mehmet Emin Bozarslan from the author's Kurdish–Arabic dictionary based on the dialect of Bitlis, first published in 1894 as al-Hadīyah al-Ḥamīdīyah, Istanbul: Çira Yayınları, page 370b