Talk:ხარჭი

@კვარია please summarize here Gudava apud Xalilov, if you have access to his works. --Vahag (talk) 15:55, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

@ხარჭი კვარია thanks, but I have now found a more convincing Iranian proposal. Compare Middle Persian harzbed "master of harem". I will add it myself. Vahag (talk) 18:42, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

@Vahagn_Petrosyan: Damn, did you just declare me your concubine?! Thank God! Now I can relax because their writing system was giving me a headache. :D კვარია (talk) 18:51, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, I am not good at reading Georgian hieroglyphs. I didn't notice what I typed :) --Vahag (talk) 12:04, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

@Vahagn_Petrosyan: Oh shit, I'm an idiot, it's obviously borrowed from halk. Laz ხარკიშ ბერე (xarǩiş bere, “concubine's child, someone else's child”). Though Bukaklishi glosses standalone ხარკი (xarǩi) as yabancı, başkası; halk Marr, N. (1910) “ხარკიშ ბერე”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 229 კვარია (talk) 11:57, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Acharyan does list xarḳiš bere as an Armenian borrowing, but I did not agree with him for the reason you figured out. Vahag (talk) 14:33, 29 March 2022 (UTC)