բողբուճ

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

• բողբոճ (boġboč)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Armenian բողբոջ (bołboǰ).

Noun

բողբուճ • (boġbuč)

1. truffle (any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բողբոջ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 464b
• Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “բողբոջ կամ բողբուճ․ բխբուճ”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 367, page 98
• Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “բողբոճ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 123b
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “բողբոջ 2”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎^[1], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, pages 115–116