որոր

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian որոր (oror)

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

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որոր • (oror)

1. seagull, gull, Larus

• ճայ (čay)

• Ġazaryan, Ṙuben S. (2001) “որոր”, in Kendanineri anunneri hayeren-ṙuseren-latineren kargabanakan baṙaran. Girkʻ B. Tʻṙčʻunner [An Armenian–Russian–Latin Taxonomic Dictionary of Animal Names. Book II. Birds] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: Macmillan Armenia, →ISBN, § 189, page 22

A reduplicated formation from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-. Cognate with Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“eagle”), Middle Armenian ուրուր (urur, “kite”), Proto-Slavic *orь̃lъ (“eagle”).

որոր • (oror)

1. (hapax) gull, Larus
   • 5th century, Bible, Leviticus 11.16:[1]

     […] եւ ջայլեամն եւ բու եւ որոր (var. աւրօր, արօր), եւ որ ինչ նման իցէ նոցա […]

     […] ew ǰayleamn ew bu ew oror (var. awrōr, arōr), ew or inčʻ nman icʻē nocʻa […]

     […] the ostrich, the owl, the gull, and any of their kind […]

Translates Ancient Greek λάρος (láros).

• շնորոր (šnoror), շնօրօր (šnōrōr)

• → Armenian: որոր (oror) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “ուրուր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 618ab
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “որոր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 536a
• Fortson, Benjamin W. (2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, second edition, Oxford: Blackwell, page 387
• Ġazarean, Ṙ. S. (2000) “որոր”, in Tʻosunean G. B., editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 350a
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “որոր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 570b