ջանավար

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Armenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جاناوار (janavar, monster), from Persian جانور (jânvar, animal, beast, brute, creature).

Pronunciation

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Noun

ջանավար (ǰanavar)

  1. (dialectal) beast (especially, a wolf)
    ջանավարի սիրտ ուտելǰanavari sirt utelto be fearless
  2. (figuratively) terror, horror

Declension

Adjective

ջանավար (ǰanavar) (superlative ամենաջանավար)

  1. (figuratively) terrible, terrifying

Declension

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “ճանավար”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 216