կավառ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Armenian կաւառն (kawaṙn).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

կավառ (kavaṙ) (traditional orthography spelling կաւառ) (dialectal)

  1. narrow brook, canal
  2. the point on a canal, whence the water is separated and directed towards the land to be irrigated

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Turkish: gever, gavar, kavar

References[edit]

  • Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “կավառ”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “կաւառ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House