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Armenian
Չուքա
Etymology
First attested in Sarafean (1788) glossing Russian щука(ščuka, “pike (fish)”), but later consistenly identified with the sterlet. Borrowed from some member of the family discussed at Ottoman Turkishچوقه بالغی(çoka balığı, çuka balığı).
Alamdareancʻ, Yarutʻiwn (1821) “стерлядь”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i ṙusacʻ lezuē i hay [Concise Russian–Armenian dictionary] (overall work in Old Armenian and Russian), Moscow: August Semen press, page 236b: “սղոցաձուկն (չուքայ)”
Beke, Ödön (1938) “Skr. kečiga”, in Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie (in German), volume 15, number 1/2, page 119 of 118–119, derives չուքա(čʻukʻa) from Turkic
Erecʻpʻoxeancʻ, Gabriēl (1854) “стерлядь”, in Baṙaran i ṙusacʻ lezu i hay [Russian–Armenian dictionary] (overall work in Old Armenian and Russian), Tiflis: Armenian Nersisian School press, page 497a: “չուքայ (ձուկն)”
Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1945) “չուքայ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 31b
Pallas, Peter Simon (1811) “Acipenser pygmaeus”, in Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica (in Latin), volume III, St. Petersburg: Academy Press, § 85, page 103: “Armenis et Georgianis Tschúka”
Sarafean, Kġēopatra (1788) “щука”, in Banali gitutʻean [Key of Knowledge] (overall work in Armenian and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Grigor Khaldariants press, page 241a
