ժաժիկ

Armenian

Etymology

Compare Northern Kurdish jajî, jajik (“a kind of cheese”),[1] ژاژ (jaj, “name of a herb used to flavour cheese”), and Persian ژاژ (žâž, “thyme”). For the interchangeability of plant-names with ‘cheese’ or ‘milk’, compare Armenian պանիր (panir, “cheese”) and dialectal պանրխոտ (panrxot, “thyme”), or կաթնախոտ (katʻnaxot, literally “milk-grass”), կաթնածաղիկ (katʻnacaġik, literally “milk-flower”).[2] Possibly related to Ottoman Turkish جاجیگ (cacıg).

Pronunciation

Noun

ժաժիկ • (žažik)[3]

  1. (dialectal) zhazhik (a cheese-like substance, produced by cooking and straining tan and adding salt and greens)

Declension

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “ժաժիկ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
  2. Asatrian, Garnik (2012) “Marginal remarks on the history of some Persian words”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎, volume 16, number 1, page 115
  3. Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “ժաժիկ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
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