See also: Եզր

Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Armenian եզր (ezr).

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

Noun edit

եզր (ezr)

  1. bank; shore
  2. border, edge; brink; extremity
  3. skirt, flap, lap, hem
  4. border, boundary, limit
  5. rib
  6. conclusion, finding; deduction
  7. term (word or phrase from a specialised area of knowledge)

Declension edit

Synonyms edit

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰ-er-, from *h₁eǵʰ- (balk, border). Cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera (lake), Lithuanian ežià (boundary-strip), Latvian eža (balk), Russian яз (jaz, fish weir).

Noun edit

եզր (ezr)

  1. edge (of a cloth, ravine, city, etc.)
  2. shore (of a sea, river, etc.)
    • 7th century, Anania Širakacʿi, Yałags harcʿman ew lucman [On Questions and Solutions] 7:
      եւ երթեալ յեզր գետոյն, որու Ախուրեանն կոչեն
      ew ertʻeal yezr getoyn, oru Axureann kočʻen
      and I went to the shore of the river, which they call Axurean
  3. limit, term
  4. end
    եզր ունել, յեզր ելանելezr unel, yezr elanelto end, to terminate

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: եզր (ezr), եզերք (ezerkʻ)

References edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “եզր”, 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) “եզր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1899) “Hübschmann H.: Armenische Grammatik. I. Theil. Armenische Etymologie. II. Abteilung. Die syrischen und griechischen Lehnwörter im Altarmenischen und die echtarmenischen Wörter”, in Indogermanische Forschungen. Anzeiger für indogermanische Sprach- und Altertumskunde. Beiblatt zu den Indogermanischen Forschungen (in German), volume 10, page 47 of 41–50
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 247
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “եզր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy