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Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle Armenian հալաւ (halaw).

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հալավ (halav) (dialectal)

  1. garment
    Synonyms: հագուստ (hagust), զգեստ (zgest), շոր (šor)
  2. undergarment, tunic
  3. wedding dress
  4. the clothes brought by the bride as a dowry
  5. piece of cloth for menstruation
  6. (transferred sense) menstruation
    Synonym: դաշտան (daštan)
  7. piece of cloth used as a spinning wheel cover
  8. slough (the skin shed by a snake)
    Synonym: խորխ (xorx)

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Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “հալաւ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 630b
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հալաւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 10a
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944) “հալաւ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 11b
  • Riggs, Elias (1847) “հալաւ”, in A Vocabulary of Words Used in Modern Armenian But Not Found in the Ancient Armenian Lexicons, Smyrna: W. Griffitt, page 71a
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “հալավ”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 404c
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2004), “հալավ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 228