վառեկ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Armenian վառեկ (vaṙek).

Pronunciation

Noun

վառեկ (vaṙek)

  1. pullet, chick
  2. (Vozm, slang) bride

Declension

Derived terms

  • վառեկիլ (vaṙekil)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), վառեակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 308b

Descendants

  • Turkish: varek, varik (dialectal)

Middle Armenian

Etymology

Related to Northern Kurdish var̄ik (chick, young of chicken; female chicken, hen), Central Kurdish باڕ (barr, immature), باڕۆکە (barroke), dialectal واڕۆکە (warroke), Southern Kurdish واڕِگ (warrig), Laki ڤاڕِک (varrik), Hawrami ۋاڕوْکە (ʋāřɔka), Zazaki varrik, varrike (pullet, chick), Talysh верә (verä, pullet), Southern Luri [script needed] (bāřīk, a hen which lays an egg for the first time), Georgian ვარია (varia, pullet).

Probably an Iranian borrowing. Compare Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬭𐬆𐬔𐬀𐬥 (vārəgan, a kind of predatory bird), which may contain *𐬬𐬁𐬭𐬀- (*vāra-, a kind of domestic fowl) and 𐬔𐬀𐬥- (gan-, to kill).

An alternative (Old Armenian?) form վառեակ (vaṙeak) is recorded in several dictionaries,[1][2] but its place of attestation is unknown. Modern literary վառյակ (vaṙyak) is a learned borrowing from this presumed form.

Dialectal Turkish ferik, feruk, ferük, firig, firik, Azerbaijani fərik (young chick) are sometimes cited as related terms or borrowings from Armenian, but they are probably from Arabic فَرْخ (farḵ, young chick).

Noun

վառեկ (vaṙek)[3]

  1. pullet, chick
    • 1184, Mxitʿar Heracʿi, J̌ermancʿ mxitʿarutʿiwn [Relief of Fevers] :
      [] և կերակուր պարկեշտ տալ, զերդ վառեկ հաւ պարկեշտ համեմնով եփած, որ հիւանդին ուժն չպակասի, մինչև հիւանդութիւն ՚ի վճար գայ։
      [] ew kerakur parkešt tal, zerd vaṙek haw parkešt hamemnov epʿac, or hiwandin užn čʿpakasi, minčʿew hiwandutʿiwn ’i včar gay.

Descendants

References

  1. Sebastacʿi, Mxitʿar (1769), վառեակ”, in Baṙgirkʿ Haykazean lezui. Mnacʿordkʿ grabaṙ baṙicʿ haykazean lezui [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. The Remainder of Old Armenian Words] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 244a
  2. Awgerean, Mkrtičʿ (1865), վառեկ”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), corrected and expanded by Grigor Čēlalean, 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 749b
  3. Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), վառեկ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 730b

Further reading

  • Abajev, V. I. (1989) Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 50
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), վառեակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 308b
  • Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 23
  • Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 427
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), վառեակ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 704b
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), վառեակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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