լոր

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Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Armenian լոր (lor).

Pronunciation

Noun

լոր (lor)

  1. quail, Coturnix[2]

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Northern Kurdish: lûr

References

  1. ^ Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “լոր”, in Словарь наречия Мокса [Dictionary of Moks Dialect] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.1)‎[1] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 239
  2. ^ Ġazaryan, Ṙuben S. (2001) “լոր”, 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, § 169, page 14

Old Armenian

Etymology

The origin is unknown.

Often connected with Ancient Greek λάρος (láros), λαρίς (larís, a ravenous sea-bird) and both considered either Proto-Indo-European onomatopoeias based on the verb "to shriek, cry out" (compare Latin lamentum) or borrowings from a "Mediterranean substrate". Greppin considers these proposals difficult, because the quail's voice at the most could be considered chattering and because of the semantic difficulty of relating an unappetizing sea bird with the commonly eaten field bird.

Note that the compound լորամարգ (loramarg, a quail-like bird) contains as its second component a reflex of Proto-Iranian *mr̥gáh (hen, bird), which was not used in Armenian independently but is present in another compound, սիրամարգ (siramarg, peacock), wholly borrowed from Iranian. Therefore, լորամարգ (loramarg) may also be wholly borrowed from an unidentified Iranian compound, with լոր (lor) reflecting the simplex of that Iranian word. In this respect compare Classical Persian لارون (lārōn), لارده (lārda), لاروده (lārūda), لاروره (lārūra, quail),[1][2][3] known to Ačaṙyan but who considers the similarity accidental.

Noun

լոր (lor)

  1. common quail, Coturnix coturnix[4]

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “լարուն”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 162a
  2. ^ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لارده”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1111
  3. ^ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لاروده”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1111
  4. ^ Ġazarean, Ṙ. S. (2000) “լոր”, in Tʻosunean G. B., editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 536b