խորհ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian խորհ (xorh).

Pronunciation

Noun

խորհ • (xorh)

  1. (dated, poetic) Alternative form of խոհ (xoh)

Declension

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • -խոհ- (-xoh-) (in compounds, classically only at the end of compounds)
  • -խոխ (-xox) (in one compound)

Etymology

Certainly an Iranian borrowing, but the exact source is uncertain.

Perhaps from a descendant of Proto-Iranian *hwar- (“to take, grasp”), in the sense "to grasp in mind": compare Khotanese [script needed] (hvarāka-, “grasping; robber”).[1] Further connections outside of Iranian uncertain; see Cheung for more.[2]

Compare also Southern Kurdish ھۊر (hür, “thought, memory”).

Noun

խորհ • (xorh)

  1. thought

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Armenian: խորհ (xorh), խոհ (xoh)

References

  1. Bailey, H. W. (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 2. Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica‎, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 459a of 459–465
  2. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 149

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “խորհ”, 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 409–410
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “խորհ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 975c
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 149–150
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “խորհ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 345a
  • Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 624
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “խորհ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 477
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