խոխա

Etymology
Two views exist.

According to Ačaṙean, a borrowing from, whence also dialectal 🇨🇬 (Constantinople), (Van), with a sense development ‘fool’ → ‘infantile person’ → ‘child’. For such a development he compares dialectal (Diyarbarkir), from 🇨🇬. For the sense development see also the etymology of. Note that Turkish xaxa cited by Ačaṙean is not included in the standard dictionaries of Turkish or Azerbaijani, but compare 🇨🇬 recorded by Kerestedjian, which he treats as a borrowing from the same source as 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬 and dialectal 🇨🇬 (Van).

According to the other view, inherited from, , through complex dialectal sound changes. In that case cognate with inherited Karabakh forms,.

Noun

 * 1)  child
 * 2)  infantile person
 * 1)  infantile person