Biçənək

thumb|left|250px|The Stone Bridge, in the east from the Bichanak village (16th-17th centuries) Biçənək, anglicized as Bichanak and Bichenek, is a village and municipality in the Shahbuz District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Yevlakh-Lachin-Nakhchivan highway, 24 km in the north-east from the district center, on both banks of the Nakhchivanchay river. Its population is busy with gardening and animal husbandry. There are a secondary school, club, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,172. Nearby in the east is located old Farhad house and the Xınzirək, the place of residence of the Middle Ages.

==Etymology== There are different opinions about the meaning of the name of "Bichanak". The present population of the village, explains the meaning of the name of "Bichanak" as "the place which cuts the grass". But all the researchers deny this idea and explains, the origin of the name with the name of an ancient Turkish "Pecenek // Becenek" tribe. Pecenek tribe is one of the Oghuz tribes which Mahmud al-Kashgari mentioned in his work "Dīwānu l-Luġat al-Turk". This is reflected in the work "Secerei-terakime" of the Turkish Sultan Əbulqazi Bahadur Khan. For the first time acad. Ziya Bunyadov wrote that in the "Bichanak" toponym is reflected the name of the ancient Turkish tribe of "Pecenek // Becenek". The word of "Bichanak" as an ancient toponym preserves the name of the "Pecenek // Becenek" tribe.