Armenian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Persian تار (târ).

Noun edit

թառ (tʻaṙ)

  1. (music) tar (Persian musical instrument)
Declension edit

References edit

  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “թառ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Armenian թառ (tʻaṙ).

Noun edit

թառ (tʻaṙ)

  1. roosting perch
    թառ լինելtʻaṙ linelto perch; (of humans) to sit at some high place
    թառ տալtʻaṙ talto hang from a high place
  2. (dialectal, New Julfa) shelf on a wall
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Azerbaijani: tar
  • Turkish: tar
  • Udi: таьр (tär)

References edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “թառ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 158, pages 45–46

Middle Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Armenian *թառ (*tʻaṙ), Proto-Indo-European *tr̥sós (surface for drying), from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (dry).[1][2][3] The o-stem of the Armenian is preserved in the Georgian borrowing თარო (taro).

Noun edit

թառ (tʻaṙ), nominative plural թառեր (tʻaṙer)

  1. a bar from which fruits (e.g. grapes) are hung to dry
  2. roosting perch

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Lidén, Evald (1906) Armenische Studien (in German), Göteborg: Wald. Zachrissons, pages 45–46
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “թառ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 154–155
  3. ^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 701

Further reading edit