հանաք

Armenian

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic حَنَك (ḥanak, jaw), in some dialects via Northern Kurdish henek (joke). The sense development is ‘jaw, chin’ → ‘gab, chitchat, chinwag’ → ‘joke’. For such a development compare Turkish çene (chin; talkativeness).

Pronunciation

Noun

հանաք (hanakʿ)

  1. (dialectal) joke
    հանաք անելhanakʿ anelto joke
    Synonym: կատակ (katak)

Declension

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), հանակ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 636a
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), միահանէք”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 319b
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 91
  • Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1944), հանաք”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 42c
  • Tietze, Andreas (2007), hanek / henek”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 250a
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