աղերս

From Old Armenian աղերս (ałers); see it for more.

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑˈʁeɾs/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑˈʁeɾs/,

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• Hyphenation: ա‧ղերս

աղերս • (aġers)

1. supplication, entreaty
2. relation, connection

The first part is usually connected with աղաչեմ (ałačʻem). The second component has been identified with an independently unattested Proto-Armenian *hers from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-, but this is uncertain.

աղերս • (ałers)

1. supplication, petition, deprecation, entreaty

   աղերս արկանել, յաղերս մատչիլ, աղերս մատուցանել ― ałers arkanel, yałers matčʻil, ałers matucʻanel ― to supplicate, to implore, to pray, to request

2. pity, compassion, mercy
3. self-justification, excuse
4. gift given to win one's favour
5. relationship, connection
6. hope
7. (of a voice) imploring

vow=on

• Armenian: աղերս (aġers)
• Georgian: ალერსი (alersi)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “աղերս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “աղերս”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “աղերս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Ġazarean, Ṙubēn (2000) “աղերս”, in G. B. Tʻosunean, editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “aɫers”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 35