# տարեխ
## Middle Armenian
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek τάριχος (tárikhos, “salted fish”).

### Noun

տարեխ • (tarex)
* tarek, pearl mullet, Van fish, Alburnus tarichi (especially in a dried and salted form)
    Synonym: աղձուկն (aġjukn)
** 1113 – 1140, Mattʻēos Uṙhayecʻi, Žamanakagrutʻiwn [Chronicle] :Նոյնպէս յաւուրսն բարեկենդանին ի նոյն ամին եկեալ կարաւան ի յարեւելից ի քաղաքն Անտիոք, եւ բարձեալ բերէին տարեխ ձուկն, եւ կային ի մէջ շուկային ի գինարբութեան․Noynpēs yawursn barekendanin i noyn amin ekeal karawan i yarewelicʻ i kʻaġakʻn Antiokʻ, ew barjeal berēin tarex jukn, ew kayin i mēǰ šukayin i ginarbutʻean;Translation by Ara DostourianOn the day of Barekendan of the same year a caravan, carrying tarex fish, came to the city of Antioch from the East. The people belonging to this caravan had set themselves up in the market place and were making merry.
** 13th century, Grigoris, Kʻnnutʻiwn bnutʻean mardoy ew norin cʻawocʻ [Study of the nature of man and his ailments] :Եթէ մարդոյն կերակուրն կծու լինի եւ աղի, որպէս […] պղպեղ, պուրի, տարեխ […] Etʻē mardoyn kerakurn kcu lini ew aġi, orpēs […] pġpeġ, puri, tarex […]If a man's food is sour or salty, such as […] pepper, puri, tarex […]
** 17th century, Bžškaran [Medical work] in Matenadaran manuscript no. 6275, 221a :Չոր մանրաձուկն, որ է տարեխČʻor manrajukn, or ē tarexSmall dry fish, which is tarex

#### Descendants

* Armenian: տառեխ (taṙex)
** → English: tarek
** → Northern Kurdish: darex
** → Russian: таре́х (taréx)
** → Turkish: darık

### References

* ↑ Mattʻēos Uṙhayecʻi (1898) Mambrē vard. Mēlikʻ-Adamean and Nersēs sark. Tēr Mikʻayēlean, editors, Žamanakagrutʻiwn [Chronicle]‎, 2nd edition, Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 228
* ↑ Dostourian, Ara Edmond (1993) Armenia and the Crusades: The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America, page 148
* ↑ Grigoris (1962) A. S. Kcoyan, editor, Kʻnnutʻiwn bnutʻean mardoy ew norin cʻawocʻ [Study of the nature of man and his ailments], Yerevan: Academy Press, page 66
* ↑ Poġosyan, Norayr (2014) “չոր մանրաձուկ”, in Norahayt baṙer vaġašxarhabaryan aġbyurnerum (16–18-rd dd.) [Newfound Words in Early Ashkharhabar Sources (16–18th cc.)], Yerevan: University Press, page 167a

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տառեխ”, 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 377ab
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “տառեխ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 848a
* Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 383
* Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, § 121, page 48
* Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “տարեխ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 752a
* Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “տարեխ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [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 708
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “տառեխ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 692a