գռեհիկ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian գռեհիկ (gṙehik).

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• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɡəreˈhik/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /kəɾeˈhiɡ/,

գռեհիկ • (gṙehik) (superlative ամենագռեհիկ)

1. coarse, rough, rude, impolite
2. unrefined, obnoxious, intolerable
3. vulgar, crude, primitive

գռեհիկ • (gṙehik)

1. coarsely, roughly, rudely, impolitely
2. unrefinedly, obnoxiously, intolerably
3. vulgarly, crudely, primitively

From գռեհ (gṙeh, “street, common road”) +‎ -իկ (-ik), which is of the same Iranian origin as գրոհ (groh, “mob”) and Old Georgian გლეხი (glexi, “peasant”).

գռեհիկ • (gṙehik)

1. commoner, pleb, layman

գռեհիկ • (gṙehik)

1. vulgar, plebeian, common

• → Armenian: գռեհիկ (gṙehik) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գռեհ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գռեհիկ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 456
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գռեհիկ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy