գառ

Armenian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Armenian գառն (gaṙn).

Pronunciation

Noun

գառ • (gaṙ)

  1. lamb
    Hyponym: ամլիկ (amlik)

Usage notes

The combining form is գառն- (gaṙn-), as in Old Armenian.

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ? Northern Kurdish: kar (young of several different animals, especially gazelle), karik (goatling, kid), garik (lamb of a black sheep)[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. Justi, Ferdinand (1878) Les noms d'animaux en Kurde (in French), Paris: Imprimerie nationale, page 17
  2. Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 360a
  3. Adjarian, H. (1909–1911) “Recueil de mots kurdes en dialecte de Novo-Bayazet [Compendium of Kurdish Words in the Nor Bayazet Dialect]”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume XVI, page 358a
  4. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գառն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 520a
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