Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Armenian մարի (mari), from Old Armenian մարի (mari), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

մարի (mari)

  1. hen, female chicken
    Synonym: հավ (hav)
  2. the female of any bird
  3. (dialectal, Karabakh) sow, female pig

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: meri (female partridge)
  • Northern Kurdish: marî (female partridge)
  • Zazaki: mari (female partridge)

Further reading edit

Middle Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Armenian մարի (mari), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

Noun edit

մարի (mari)

  1. female bird, hen
  2. female bee

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: մարի (mari)
    • Turkish: meri (female partridge)
    • Northern Kurdish: marî (female partridge)
    • Zazaki: mari (female partridge)

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մարի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մարի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 453
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “մարի”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎[1], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian

Old Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

A derivative of Proto-Indo-European *mer- (young boy, girl). Cognates include Proto-Indo-Iranian *máryas (young man), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, young girl), Latin marītus (husband), Lithuanian marti (daughter-in-law), Proto-Brythonic *moruɨn (girl), Proto-Brythonic *merx (girl).

Noun edit

մարի (mari)

  1. female bird, hen

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Middle Armenian: մարի (mari)
    • Armenian: մարի (mari)
      • Turkish: meri (female partridge)
      • Northern Kurdish: marî (female partridge)
      • Zazaki: mari (female partridge)

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մարի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մարի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 106
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 453
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մարի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy