տառեխ

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • տառեխ (taṙex) — Alashkert, dialectological notation
  • տառեխ (taṙex), տարեխ (tarex) — Mush, dialectological notation
  • տա՛ռէխ (táṙēx) — Ararat, dialectological notation
  • տառէղ (taṙēġ) — Erzurum, dialectological notation
  • տա՛ռռէխ (táṙṙēx) — Goris, dialectological notation
  • տա՛ռռէխ (táṙṙēx), տա՛ռռըխ (táṙṙəx), տա՛ռէխ (táṙēx) — Karabakh, dialectological notation
  • տառախ (taṙax) — Agulis, dialectological notation
  • դայեխ (dayex, “any dried fish”) — Haçin, dialectological notation

Etymology

From Middle Armenian տարեխ (tarex).

Pronunciation

Noun

տառեխ • (taṙex)

  1. tarek, pearl mullet, Van fish, Alburnus tarichi (especially in a dried and salted form)

Usage notes

The word does not exist in Van dialect, where the fish is simply called Վանա ձուկ (Vana juk, “Van fish”).

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: tarek
  • → Northern Kurdish: darex
  • → Russian: таре́х (taréx)
  • → Turkish: darık

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տառեխ”, 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 377ab
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