լավազ

Armenian

Alternative forms

• լաւազ (lawaz) — traditional orthography

Etymology

Recorded in the dialects of Van and Moks, in the latter as լավազիկ (lavazik, “ailing, skinny”).

Borrowed from Northern Kurdish lawaz (“thin, slim, slender, lean; skinny; weak”).

Adjective

լավազ • (lavaz)

1. (dialectal, Van) very thin, slim, slender, lean

Derived terms

• լավազիկ (lavazik)
• լավազ-մավազ (lavaz-mavaz)
• լանկլավազ (lanklavaz)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “լաւազ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 414a
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎^[1] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 135
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 304–306
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “լավազ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 204b