սմբուկ

Etymology
Unattested in Old or Middle Armenian. Several dictionaries list as a dialectal word,    but Ačaṙyan is unable to identify it in any dialect. However, the word is in fact recorded in Istanbul,, , and. Note also dialect,  referring to a kind of edible greens equivalent to.

The origin is.

Ačaṙyan derives from, via a form , wherein was then confused with similar-looking. But because the word is dialectal, such a literary confusion is unlikely.

Perhaps from an assumed root or the like, thus "the smooth one", referring to the smooth, glossy surface of the eggplant fruit, which root may also be contained in dialectal , , , , ,  and the uncertain given name. The after  may be epenthetic in dialects: compare the examples given in Martirosyan 2010. This assumed root may be borrowed from, ultimately from , from , whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and according to Horn also 🇨🇬, to which the Iranian borrowing is related (J̌ahukyan considers  in the latter an Iranian suffix, as in ). For the Iranian root see Cheung, without the Armenian. Compare also 🇨🇬.

Typologically compare. For another figurative usage in the dialects compare.

Noun

 * 1)  eggplant, aubergine,