բոզ

From Old Armenian բոզ (boz).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [bɔz]

բոզ • (boz)

1. (vulgar) whore, tart, prostitute
2. (vulgar, offensive) bitch, slut
3. (vulgar, offensive) motherfucker, dickhead (generic strong insult)
4. (vulgar, slang) army officer (especially as used by the privates)
5. (vulgar, slang) policeman, police officer

• բոզի տղա (bozi tła)

According to Ačaṙyan, from Georgian ბოზი (bozi, “whore”). That the Armenian word is borrowed from South Caucasian languages and not vice versa is confirmed by Laz ბოზო (bozo, “girl”). For the sense development “girl” → “whore”, compare French fille (“girl; prostitute”), German Dirne (“girl; prostitute”), Russian девка (devka, “girlie; whore”). Ačaṙyan remarks, that prostitutes were introduced into Armenia from Caucasus together with the word for them: compare how պոռնիկ (poṙnik) is from Greek and կաւատ (kawat) from Arabic.

բոզ • (boz)

1. whore, prostitute, strumpet, streetwalker

• ետր (etr)

• Armenian: բոզ (boz)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “բոզ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “բոզ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “բոզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press