գավակ

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • քավագ (kʻavag) Tekirdağ, dialectological notation
  • գՙավակ (gʻavak) Akhaltsikhe, Erzurum, dialectological notation
  • գյա̈վակ (gyävak) Karabakh, dialectological notation
  • գՙավօգ (gʻavōg), գՙավոգ (gʻavog) Zeitun, dialectological notation

Etymology

From Old Armenian գաւակ (gawak).

Pronunciation

Noun

գավակ • (gavak)

  1. rump, croup (of a horse)

Declension

Descendants

  • ? Turkish: kavak

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գաւակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 527a
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § D5, page 163
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