լավազ
Armenian edit
Alternative forms edit
- լաւազ (lawaz) — traditional orthography
Etymology edit
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 edit
լավազ • (lavaz)
Derived terms edit
- լավազիկ (lavazik)
- լավազ-մավազ (lavaz-mavaz)
- լանկլավազ (lanklavaz)
Further reading edit
- 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