քիփ

Armenian

Etymology

From dialectal Turkish kip and Azerbaijani kip (tight). Doublet of կիպ (kip).

Pronunciation

Adjective

քիփ • (kʻipʻ) (superlative ամենաքիփ) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. tight, compact
  2. close, intimate
    իրար հետ քիփ ենքirar het kʻipʻ enkʻwe're close to each other

Declension

Adverb

քիփ • (kʻipʻ)

  1. tightly, compactly

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “քիփ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 1116a
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 217
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