դեյրա

Armenian

Etymology

Related to dialectal Azerbaijani deyrə (narrow women's skirt). Ultimately perhaps from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira, circle).

Pronunciation

Noun

դեյրա • (deyra) (dialectal)

  1. skirt
    Synonym: կիսաշրջազգեստ (kisašrǰazgest)

Declension

Alternative forms

  • դերյա (derya), դերիա (deria), դայրա (dayra), դարյա (darya)

Further reading

  • Barseġyan, Hovhannes (1973) “դեյրա”, in Hayeren uġġagrakan-uġġaxosakan, terminabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Orthographic–Orthoepic Terminological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Luys
  • Pisowicz, Andrzej (2019) “A short phrase book of the Stepanakert variant of the Karabagh dialect”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 253, comparing with Persian دریا (daryâ, sea)
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “դարյա”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 119
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “դայրա₂”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 304b
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