հաւալուսն

From հաւ (haw, “bird”) +‎ -ա- (-a-) +‎ լուսն (lusn, “*white”). The similarity to Arabic حَوْصَل (ḥawṣal, “pelican”) is rather coincidental.

հաւալուսն • (hawalusn)

1. pelican

   Synonyms: թոնձ (tʻonj), փորահաւ (pʻorahaw), պեղական (pełakan)

   • 5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Baroyaxōs [Physiologus] Earliest recension (TR).7.2–3:[1]

     Բարուախաւսն ասէ զհաւալուսն, թէ կարի որդեսէր է․ եւ յորժամ հանէ զձագսն, եւ սակաւիկ մի աճեն, ապտակեն զերեսս հաւրն եւ մաւրն։

     Baruaxawsn asē zhawalusn, tʻē kari ordesēr ē; ew yoržam hanē zjagsn, ew sakawik mi ačen, aptaken zeress hawrn ew mawrn.

     • Translation by Gohar Muradyan

       Physiologus says about the pelican that it is an extraordinary lover of its young. And when it brings forth nestlings and they grow a bit, they slap their father and mother on the face.

In the Physiologus, translates Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekán).

• → Armenian: հավալուսն (havalusn) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “լոյս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 295a
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “հաւալուսն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Greppin, John A. C. (1978) Classical and Middle Armenian bird names: A linguistic, taxonomic, and mythological study, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, pages 7–9
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “lusn”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 320–321
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 690
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հաւալուսն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy