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Armenian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish گوگرجین (güğercin, güvercin).
Pronunciation
Noun
կիւվէրճին • (kiwvērčin) (Istanbul, traditional orthography)
- pigeon
- Synonym: աղավնի (aġavni)
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “կիւվէրճին”, 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, page 205
- Riggs, Elias (1847) “կէօվէրճին”, in A Vocabulary of Words Used in Modern Armenian But Not Found in the Ancient Armenian Lexicons, Smyrna: W. Griffitt, page 66a