See also: քառ-

Old Armenian edit

Old Armenian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : քառ (kʻaṙ)
    Ordinal : քառորդ (kʻaṙord)
    Adverbial : քառիցս (kʻaṙicʻs)
    Multiplier : քառակի (kʻaṙaki)

Etymology edit

From Proto-Armenian *kʷtwr̥-, zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (four), whence also չորք (čʻorkʻ).

Numeral edit

քառ (kʻaṙ)

  1. four

Usage notes edit

Classically used only in compounds, post-classically also independently, meaning “four”.

Declension edit

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References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “քառ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “քառ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “քառ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “*k‘aṙ-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 656