աջաբ

Armenian

Alternative forms
  • աճապ (ačap), աճափ (ačapʻ), ա̈ջա̈փ (äǰäpʻ)

Etymology

From Middle Armenian աճապ (ačap), from Ottoman Turkish عجب (acep), from Arabic عَجَب (ʕajab).

Pronunciation

Particle

աջաբ • (aǰab) (dialectal)

  1. I wonder!
    Synonym: արդյոք (ardyokʻ)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 5:[1]
      աճապ․ սէ
      ačap; sē
      աճապ (ačap) = se

References
  1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 215

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “աճապ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “աջաբ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
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