շիշ

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ʃiʃ/, [ʃiʃ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ʃiʃ/, [ʃiʃ]

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian շիշ (šiš). Doublet of շուշա (šuša) and շիշա (šiša).

շիշ • (šiš)

1. bottle

   գինու շիշ ― ginu šiš ― wine bottle

From Ottoman Turkish شیش (şiş) (Turkish şiş).

շիշ • (šiš)

1. (dialectal) skewer, spit

   Synonym: շամփուր (šampʻur)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “շիշ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 261

An Iranian borrowing: compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (šyšk' /⁠šīšag⁠/, “bottle, flask”), Persian شیشه (šiše, “glass”).

շիշ • (šiš)

1. bottle, flask, phial
   • 5th century, Bible, Luke 7.37:

     Եւ կին մի էր ի քաղաքին մեղաւոր․ իբրեւ գիտաց թէ բազմեալ է ի տան փարիսեցւոյն, բերեալ շիշ մի իւղոյ ազնուի։

     Ew kin mi ēr i kʻałakʻin meławor; ibrew gitacʻ tʻē bazmeal ē i tan pʻarisecʻwoyn, bereal šiš mi iwłoy aznui.

     • Translation by King James Bible

       And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that [Jesus] sat at meat in the Pharisee' s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment.

• → Armenian: շիշ (šiš)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “շիշ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “շիշ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 214
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “շիշ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy