խրչան

խրչան

Middle Armenian

Etymology

From խրչիլ (xrčʿil, “to be startled, to shy”) +‎ -ան (-an). Middle Armenian խրչիլ (xrčʿil), also խրտչիլ (xrtčʿil), is a later form of Old Armenian խրտչիմ (xrtčʿim). The Old Armenian equivalent of this formation would have been *խրտչան (*xrtčʿan).

Adjective

խրչան • (xrčʿan)

1. (of pack animals) skittish
   • 13th century, Faraj the Syrian, Bžškaran jioy ew aṙhasarak grastnoy [Medical Book on Horses and Other Beasts of Burden] 23:[1]

     Եւ գիտացիր, որ հարուն, որ ի բնութենէ լինի, ու ճինար ու խրչան, կայ որ ղորդի քչիկ քչիկ և կայ որ չղորդի։

     Ew gitacʿir, or harun, or i bnutʿenē lini, u činar u xrčʿan, kay or łordi kʿčʿik kʿčʿik ew kay or čʿłordi.

   • 13th century, Girkʿ Vastakocʿ [Geoponica] 294:[2]

     Նախ զգրաստն ի խրտչիլն պիտի ճանաչել, թէ խրչան է՝ վատասիրտ է եւ պիղծ։

     Nax zgrastn i xrtčʿiln piti čanačʿel, tʿē xrčʿan ē, vatasirt ē ew piłc.

Descendants

• → Armenian: խրտչան (xrtčʿan) (learned)
• → Azerbaijani: xırçın
• → Ottoman Turkish: خرچین‎ (hırçın)
  • Turkish: hırçın
  • → Armenian: խըռչըլ (xəṙčʿəl), խռչըլ (xṙčʿəl)

References

1. Čʿugaszyan, B. L. (1980) Bžškaran jioy ew aṙhasarak grastnoy (ŽG dar) [Medical Book on Horses and Other Beasts of Burden (13th century)]‎, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 70
2. Ališan Ł., editor (1877) Girkʿ vastakocʿ [Geoponica], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 198

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “խիրտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 271a
• Čʿugaszyan, B. L. (1980) Bžškaran jioy ew aṙhasarak grastnoy (ŽG dar) [Medical Book on Horses and Other Beasts of Burden (13th century)]‎, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 202
• Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), “խրչան”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 338a
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (2000), “խրչան”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʿ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʿeancʿ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʿ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 311
• Tʿadewosyan, Hasmik (2004), “Baṙakazmutʿyunə “Girkʿ vastakocʿ” erkum [Word formation in Geoponica]”, in Banber Erewani hamalsarani [“Banber” – Bulletin of Yerevan University]‎ (in Armenian), volume 113, issue 2, page 148 of 143–149