դահուկ

Armenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Northern Kurdish taxûk, tawûg. The Eastern Armenian pronunciation with a is a spelling pronunciation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

դահուկ • (dahuk)

1. ski

   Synonym: լիժա (liža) — colloquial

2. (Erzurum) sleigh, sled, sledge for transporting grass and wood over snow in the mountains

   Synonym: սահնակ (sahnak)

   Alternative forms: դավուկ (davuk) , դաուկ (dauk)

Declension

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “դահուկ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 263b
• Bruinessen, Martin van (1985) “Onyedinci yüzyılda Kürtler ve dilleri: Kürt lehçeleri üzerine Evliya Çelebi'nin notları”, in Studia Kurdica‎ (in Turkish), numbers 1–3, Paris: Institut Kurde de Paris, page 29 of 13–37 = Bruinessen, Martin van (1988) “Les Kurdes et leur langue au XVIIème siècle: notes d’Evliya Çelebi sur les dialectes kurdes”, in Studia Kurdica‎ (in French), numbers 1–5, Paris: Institut Kurde de Paris, page 30 of 13–34
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “դահուկ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 301a