tixa

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Armenian տղա (tġa, “boy”).

Noun

tiẍa

1. an Armenian or, in general, a Christian boy

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տղայ”, 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 413a
• Îzolî, D. (1992) “tıxa”, in Ferheng : Kurdî-Tirkî. Türkçe-Kürtçe‎^[1], compiled by a native of the Dersim region, Istanbul: Deng Yayınları, →ISBN, page 422b
• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) “تقا”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 101a
• Yusuf Ziyaeddin Paşa (1978) “tıxa”, in Kürtçe-Türkçe Sözlük [Kurdish–Turkish Dictionary]‎^[2], translated into Turkish by Mehmet Emin Bozarslan from the author's Kurdish–Arabic dictionary based on the dialect of Bitlis, first published in 1894 as al-Hadīyah al-Ḥamīdīyah, Istanbul: Çira Yayınları, page 370b