կիրճ

From Old Armenian կիրճ (kirč).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [kiɾt͡ʃ]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ɡiɾd͡ʒ]

կիրճ • (kirč)

1. narrow pass, defile
2. gorge, ravine

   Հրազդանի կիրճ ― Hrazdani kirč ― Hrazdan River gorge

J̌ahukyan following Bailey derives from Iranian, together with կարճ (karč, “short”). Compare Khotanese [script needed] (ke̮ca, “cleft, ravine”), for which Bailey reconstructs *kart-čā- or *kirsta-, from the base *kart- (“to cut”), whence Persian کارد (kârd, “knife”).

կիրճ • (kirč)

1. narrow pass, defile

   առնուլ, ունել զկիրճս ― aṙnul, unel zkirčs ― to hold or defend a pass, to be master of the communications, to hold the roads, to close the passage

2. strait, channel (of a sea)
3. narrow part of a river

• Armenian: կիրճ (kirč)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “կիրճ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “կիրճ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837) “կիրճ”, in Baṙgirkʻ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 782b
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կիրճ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 595b
• Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944) “կիրճ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 441c
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) “ke̮ca”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 65a
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “կիրճ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 407a