լավազ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Recorded in the dialects of Van and Moks, in the latter as լավազիկ (lavazik, ailing, skinny).

Borrowed from Northern Kurdish lawaz (thin, slim, slender, lean; skinny; weak).

Adjective

լավազ • (lavaz)

  1. (dialectal, Van) very thin, slim, slender, lean

Derived terms

  • լավազիկ (lavazik)
  • լավազ-մավազ (lavaz-mavaz)
  • լանկլավազ (lanklavaz)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “լաւազ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 414a
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 135
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 304–306
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “լավազ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 204b
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