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Armenian
Etymology
A Lallwort. Probably related to Georgian ზიზილა (zizila), ზიზილაკი (zizilaḳi), ზიზილ-პიპილა (zizil-ṗiṗila).
Pronunciation
Adjective
զիզի • (zizi) (superlative ամենազիզի) (dialectal, childish)
- pretty, nice, lovely
- Synonyms: գեղեցիկ (geġecʻik), սիրուն (sirun), գողտրիկ (goġtrik)
- decorated, adorned
- Synonym: զարդարուն (zardarun)
- shiny
- Synonyms: փայլուն (pʻaylun), փայլփլուն (pʻaylpʻlun), պսպղուն (pspġun)
Declension
Derived terms
- զիզի-բիզի (zizi-bizi), զիզի-պիզի (zizi-pizi), զիզիլ-պիզիլ (zizil-pizil, “ornate, pretty, eye-catching, colourful; cheap gaudy ornament, bauble, tinsel, trumpery”)
- զիզիկ (zizik, “shard of a bottle or glass; a tinkling toy; money”)
- զիզիլ (zizil, “very small onion, garlic, potato or other vegetable or fruit that is almost useless”) (possibly)
Noun
զիզի • (zizi)
- (dialectal, childish) mommy; auntie; granny
- (Karabakh) a kind of yellow wild plant
- Alternative form: զիզ (ziz)
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1901) “Mankakan barbaṙ [Child language]”, in Banasēr: Handēs hnaxōsakan, patmakan, lezuabanakan ew kʻnnakan [Philologus: Revue archéologie, historique, linguistique et critique] (in Armenian), volume 3, number 1, Paris: Basmadjian, page 6 of 3–28
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “զիզա, զիզի”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 319a
- Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “զիզի”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 141ab
- Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “զիզի”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 411a