կիւվէրճին

Armenian

Alternative forms
  • կէօվէրճին (kēōvērčin)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish گوگرجین (güğercin, güvercin).

Pronunciation

Noun

կիւվէրճին • (kiwvērčin) (Istanbul, traditional orthography)

  1. pigeon
    Synonym: աղավնի (aġavni)

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “կիւվէրճին”, 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, page 205
  • Riggs, Elias (1847) “կէօվէրճին”, in A Vocabulary of Words Used in Modern Armenian But Not Found in the Ancient Armenian Lexicons, Smyrna: W. Griffitt, page 66a
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