բոխի

Etymology 1
From, , from , with the botanical suffix.

Noun

 * 1)   ,   in different dialects may refer to different plants

Usage notes

 * The stems are turned into a pickle, commonly used as an appetizer. See a photograph of the product.
 * According to Ačaṙyan, corresponds to 🇨🇬. The latter is a dialectal form of.

Etymology 2
A dialectal word which has been adopted in the literary language as the standard designation for "hornbeam". Unattested in Old or Middle Armenian. Confined to northern, northeastern and eastern peripheral dialects, which corresponds to the geographical range of the hornbeam (see the maps). Note that the by-form reconstructed by Martirosyan on the basis of rural Karabakh  found in Ačaṙean 1913 is misguided; the latter does not mean "hornbeam" but is rather a by-form of.

Attempts to derive from are unconvincing, because the expected form is.

Probably from with the botanical suffix, and therefore etymologically identical with homonymous. Note especially Moks dialect glossed as "hornbeam" in Orbeli 2002, if the gloss is not a result of confusion. Note also Karabakh dialect, in dialectological notation , from the same source. The "hornbeam" may have been viewed as a "source of twigs or tree shoots". Aliroev relates that Chechens made arrows from light and firm young shoots of the hornbeam, hence the name of the arrow in Chechen is identical with that of "hornbeam" — ; Chechens also make baskets and wattling out of hornbeam twigs. 🇨🇬 literally means "arrow-wood" for the same reason. Compare also ~. Hornbeam produces shoots abundantly; the shoots and leaves are used as animal fodder.

Noun

 * 1) hornbeam tree