մուր

From Old Armenian մուր (mur).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [muɾ]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [muɾ]

մուր • (mur)

1. soot
2. (figuratively) disrespect

Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *muHtro-, from *mewH- (“to make wet, wash”) with Sanskrit मूत्र (mūtra, “urine”), Avestan 𐬨𐬏𐬚𐬭𐬀 (mūθra, “excrement, filth”), Middle Low German modder (“silt”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *mauˀras (“mud”), Old Armenian մօր (mōr, “swamp, marsh”), etc. as cognates. But Martirosyan connects մուր (mur, “soot”), մօր (mōr, “swamp, marsh”) and Proto-Balto-Slavic *mauˀras (“mud”) and prefers a European substrate origin for them, comparing especially Czech mour (“coal dust, soot”).

մուր • (mur)

1. soot
2. ink
3. (post-Classical, adjectival) black, dark, miserable

   սեաւ եւ մուր ― seaw ew mur ― miserable, wretched

• Armenian: մուր (mur)
• Georgian: მური (muri)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մուր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մուր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մուր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2009) “Armenian mawr ‘mud, marsh’ and its hydronimical value”, in Aramazd: Armenian journal of Near Eastern studies‎, volume 4, number 1, pages 73–85 and 179–180