հաղարջ

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • հաղարճ (haġarč) dialectal

Etymology

A dialectal term that has been adopted as the standard designation of this plant and its berry in literary Armenian. Unattested in Old or Middle Armenian. The origin is unknown. Folk-etymologically explained as հաղ- (haġ-, grape) + արջ (arǰ, bear), because bears like eating it.

Pronunciation

Noun

հաղարջ • (haġarǰ)

  1. currant (shrub of the genus Ribes and its fruit)
    Synonyms: (shrub) հաղարջենի (haġarǰeni), (non-standard, colloquial) սմառոձինա (smaṙojina), (dialectal) ֆըռէնկ իւզիւմի (fəṙēnk iwziwmi), (dialectal) ղարաղաթ (ġaraġatʻ), (dialectal) կայծոռ (kaycoṙ)
    Coordinate term: ժոխ (žox)
    սև հաղարջsew haġarǰblackcurrant
    կարմիր հաղարջkarmir haġarǰredcurrant

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “հաղարջ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 632a
  • Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “հաղարճի”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1605, page 303
  • Amatuni, Sahak (1912) “հաղարճ”, in Hayocʻ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 383
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “հաղարջ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 440a
  • Margaryan, Alekʻsandr (1975) Gorisi barbaṙə [The dialect of Goris] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press, page 423b
  • Ananean, Mkrtičʻ (1769) “հաղարճ”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Baṙgirkʻ yašxarhabaṙē i grabaṙn [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Dictionary from New Armenian into Old Armenian] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 330b
  • Riggs, Elias (1847) “հաղարճ”, in A Vocabulary of Words Used in Modern Armenian But Not Found in the Ancient Armenian Lexicons, Smyrna: W. Griffitt, page 71b
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    Sruanjteancʻ, Garegin (1876) Mananay, Constantinople: E. M. Tntesean, page 448
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