Zaruhi Khachatryan - Some horse names attested in Persian and found in the Karabakh dialect
22 Pages | 170-192 | DOI: DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2025.3-170 | Revceived on: 2025-09-21 | Reviewed on: 2025-09-25 | Accepted for printing on: 2025-11-17
Published in: 2025 N 3 (230) / Linguistics
The Karabakh dialect is one of the most distinctive Armenian dialects. Alongside original Armenian words, it contains a substantial number of borrowings from Persian, which have Iranian origin as well as Arabic and Turkic. This is quite natural, given the geographical proximity of Artsakh to the northern regions of Iran and intensive contacts with Iranian state and administrative structures during the period of melikdoms.
KeywordsKarabakh dialect horse names Persian Iranian origin Arabic borrowing semantic change vocabulary dictionary