թեշի

Etymology
An, probably borrowing: compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. Also from Kurdish: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,  🇨🇬,. Dialectal 🇨🇬,, , , dialectal 🇨🇬 are usually considered Armenian borrowings. The Kurdish too is often treated as an Armenian loan, but the opposite direction of borrowing is more likely because is not attested in Old or Middle Armenian and is limited to a few dialects, while the Kurdish is present in Central and Southern varieties and has a plausible native etymology (see below).

Ultimately probably from, whence also 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,   🇨🇬,. Note that the *č- → t- dissimilation is regular in Kurdish.

Noun

 * 1)  spindle