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Armenian
Etymology
Unattested in Old or Middle Armenian. Several dictionaries list սմբուկ(smbuk) as a dialectal word,[1][2][3][4] but Ačaṙyan is unable to identify it in any dialect.[5] However, the word is in fact recorded in Istanbul, Diyarbakır, Sivas, Palu and Çarsancak.[6][7] Note also Süveydiye dialect սմպըկ(smpək), սմբըկ(smbək) referring to a kind of edible greens equivalent to Turkishalmacıkdikeni.[8][9]
Ačaṙyan derives from Arabicأَنَب(anab, “eggplant”) + -ուկ(-uk), via a form *ամբուկ(*ambuk), wherein ա(a) was then confused with similar-looking ս(s).[5] But because the word is dialectal, such a literary confusion is unlikely.
Perhaps from an assumed root *սում(բ)-(*sum(b)-, “smooth; shaven”) or the like + -ուկ(-uk), thus "the smooth one", referring to the smooth, glossy surface of the eggplant fruit, which root may also be contained in dialectal սմբուլ(smbul, “polished, smooth”),[11]սմպատ(smpat, “having a smooth head”),[12]սմպըլիկ(smpəlik, “having a shaven head”),[13]սմբըլիկ(smbəlik, “leafless”),[14]սնուկ(snuk, “very smooth”),[15]սըն-եցնել(sən-ecʻnel, “to smooth, polish”)[16] and the uncertain given name Սմպուկս(Smpuks).[17] The -բ-(-b-) after -մ-(-m-) may be epenthetic in dialects: compare the examples given in Martirosyan 2010.[18] This assumed root may be borrowed from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian*saH-(“to whet, cut”), from Proto-Indo-European*ḱeh₃-(“to sharpen”), whence Baluchiسای-(sāy-, “to shave”), Central Kurdishسوون(sûn, “to whet, sharpen”), Gazi(sǖn-, “to rub, shave off”), Persianساد(sâd, “smooth, plane”), Sarikolisuδγ(“flat, smooth (surface)”), Persianسان(sân, “whetstone”), Central Kurdishھەسان(hesan, “whetstone”), and according to Horn also Classical Persianسنباده(sumbāde, “whetstone”),[19] to which the Iranian borrowing սմպատակ(smpatak, “touchstone”) is related (J̌ahukyan considers -ատակ(-atak) in the latter an Iranian suffix, as in յիշատակ(yišatak)).[20] For the Iranian root see Cheung,[21] without the Armenian. Compare also Zazakisımıltkun(“hairless, smooth”).[22]
Typologically compare Arabicكُوسَا(kūsā, “zucchini, courgette”, literally “smooth, beardless”). For another figurative usage in the dialects compare լոլիկ(lolik, “tomato”, literally “the round one”).
^ Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “պաթինկեան”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 404a
^ Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (1882–1884) “aubergine”, in Baṙagirkʻ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionnaire français-arménien], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 107b
^ Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “սմբուկ”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 2776, page 571
↑ 5.05.1Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սմբուկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 234ab
^ Bdoyan, V. H. (1972) Erkragorcakan mšakuytʻə Hayastanum [The agriculture in Armenia] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 118b
^ Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “սմբուկ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 367a
^ Andreasyan, Tigran (1975) Svediayi barbaṙə (kʻistʻinəgi lezun) [The Dialect of Svedia (the Christian language)] (Hayereni barbaṙner; 11) (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 158
^ Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “սմպըկ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 367b
^ Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “սմբուլ³”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 367a
^ Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “սմպատ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 367a
^ Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “սմպըլիկ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 367b
^ Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “սմբըլիկ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 366b
^ Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “սնուկ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 372a
^ Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “սընեցնել”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 320a
^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1948) “Սմպուկս”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 26) (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 564
^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 37, 437, 442
^ Djahukian, G. B. (1993) “The Armenian Suffixes of Iranian Origin”, in Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp, editors, Comparative-historical linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi III (Current issues in linguistic theory; 79), Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, page 262
^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 325—326