Tughut was a village in the territory of the Zangezur uezd of the former Yelizavetpol (Ganja) governorate, later in the former Mehri (Meghri) district, and present-day Syunik province. It was located 11-13 km to the northeast of Meghri and on the left bank of the Araz River. The name of the village was noted in Armenian sources as “Teghut”.

The village was was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 31 in 1831, 162 in 1873, 199 in 1886, 237 in 1897, 294 in 1904 and 513 Azerbaijanis in 1914. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or expelled from the village by Armenian armed formations in 1918. Only after the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis managed to return to the village. The village was was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 131 in 1922, 85 in 1926 and 78 Azerbaijanis in 1931. The village inhabitants were removed to neighbouring villages due to collectivization and the village was abolished. At present, it lies in ruins.

The toponym was coined by adding the plural ending “-ut” in Old Turkic to the ethnonym “Tug” of the Turkic Gypchag tribe and means “the village of the Tughs or the Tugh tribe”.