շաշ

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • շաշի (šaši)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish شاشی (şaşı).

Pronunciation

Adjective

շաշ • (šaš) (superlative ամենաշաշ) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. squint-eyed, cross-eyed
    Synonym: շիլ (šil)
  2. crazy, nuts, foolish

Declension

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “շաշի”, 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
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