кьваркь

Lezgi

Alternative forms
  • кьаркь (q̇arq̇)

Etymology

Compare Old Armenian գորգ (gorg).

Ganieva remarks that in the Kurush subdialect the word refers to a special kind of dish-washing rag and explains it as a reduplication of the root consonant кь (q̇).[1]

Noun

кьваркь • (q̇varq̇) (plural кьваркьвар)[2]

  1. old rag[3]
    Synonym: пек (pek)
  2. (in the plural) cork, stopper[4]

Derived terms
  • сагъ кьилик кьваркьвар кытӏын (saġ q̇ilik q̇varq̇var kyṭyn, “to meddle, interfere”, proverb, literally “to tie a healthy head with a rag”)[5]

References
  1. Ганиева, Ф. А. (2008) Курушский говор лезгинского языка [The Kurush subdialect of the Lezgi Language]‎, Makhachkala: ДНЦ РАН, pages 159, 203
  2. Uslar, Peter von (1896) “qwарqw”, in Этнография Кавказа. Языкознание. VI. Кюринский язык [Ethnography of the Caucasus. Linguistics. VI. The Lezgi Language] (in Russian), Tiflis, page 525
  3. Kerimova, S. Q̄., Melikmamedov, M. N. (2015) “кьваркь”, in Lezgi č̣alanni azerbajžan č̣alan gafargan [Lezgi–Azerbaijani Dictionary]‎, Baku: “Azərbaycan” nəşriyyatı, page 345a
  4. Kerimova, S. Q̄., Melikmamedov, M. N. (2015) “кьваркьвар”, in Lezgi č̣alanni azerbajžan č̣alan gafargan [Lezgi–Azerbaijani Dictionary]‎, Baku: “Azərbaycan” nəşriyyatı, page 345a
  5. Ганиева, Ф. А. (2004) Отраслевая лексика лезгинского языка [Branch Vocabulary of the Lezgi Language]‎, Makhachkala: ДНЦ РАН, page 271
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