թաշկինակ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian թաշկինակ (tʻaškinak).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /tʰɑʃkiˈnɑk/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /tɑʃɡiˈnɑɡ/,
• Hyphenation: թաշ‧կի‧նակ

թաշկինակ • (tʻaškinak)

1. handkerchief

   Synonym: (dialectal) աղլուխ (aġlux)

   քիթը սրբել թաշկինակով ― kʻitʻə srbel tʻaškinakov ― to wipe one's nose with a handkerchief

2. kerchief, headscarf

   Synonym: գլխաշոր (glxašor)

3. (figuratively) weak-willed, spineless person

• “թաշկինակ”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980

• թարշինակ (tʻaršinak) (post-classical, dialectal)

Uncertain.

Müller derives from hypothetical Middle Persian *tašīkēnak, from Middle Persian *taršikaina (“drier”), a supposed descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”). For the formation he compares տաճկինակ (tačkinak). For the suffix compare Iranian borrowings -կէն (-kēn) and -ակ (-ak).

Ačaṙyan and Hübschmann reject Müller's proposal and leave the origin open.

According to J̌ahukyan, probably a borrowing from some unknown Iranian source.

The form *թաշկէն (*tʻaškēn) listed in Baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui is back-formed by this dictionary from the supposed diminutive թաշկինակ (tʻaškinak) (as if թաշկէն (tʻaškēn) + -ակ (-ak)) and is unattested, according to Ačaṙyan.

թաշկինակ • (tʻaškinak)

1. towel for wiping sweat
2. kerchief

   թաշկինակ պարանոցի ― tʻaškinak paranocʻi ― neckcloth, neckerchief

• Armenian: թաշկինակ (tʻaškinak)

• Anonymous disciples of Mxitʻar Sebastacʻi (1769) “թաշկինակ”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Baṙgirkʻ i grabaṙē yašxarhabaṙn [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Dictionary from Old Armenian into New Armenian]‎ (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 143b
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “թաշկինակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 214b
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “թաշկինակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 797a
• Müller, Friedrich (1896) “Armeniaca. — Zu Mīnōīg Chrat II, 37”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 10, page 354 of 349-356
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 512
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “թաշկինակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 153–154
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “թաշկինակ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 258b