եզր

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See also: Եզր

Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian եզր (ezr).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

եզր (ezr)

  1. bank; shore
  2. border, edge; brink; extremity
  3. skirt, flap, lap, hem
  4. border, boundary, limit
  5. rib
  6. conclusion, finding; deduction
  7. term (word or phrase from a specialised area of knowledge)

Declension

Synonyms

Old Armenian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰ-er-, from *h₁eǵʰ- (balk, border). Cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera (lake), Lithuanian ežià (boundary-strip), Latvian eža (balk), Russian яз (jaz, fish weir).

Noun

եզր (ezr)

  1. edge (of a cloth, ravine, city, etc.)
  2. shore (of a sea, river, etc.)
    • 7th century, Anania Širakacʿi, Yałags harcʿman ew lucman 7:
      եւ երթեալ յեզր գետոյն, որու Ախուրեանն կոչեն
      ew ertʻeal yezr getoyn, oru Axureann kočʻen
      and I went to the shore of the river, which they call Axurean
  3. limit, term
  4. end
    եզր ունել, յեզր ելանելezr unel, yezr elanelto end, to terminate

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: եզր (ezr), եզերք (ezerkʻ)

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “եզր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “եզր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1899) “Hübschmann H.: Armenische Grammatik. I. Theil. Armenische Etymologie. II. Abteilung. Die syrischen und griechischen Lehnwörter im Altarmenischen und die echtarmenischen Wörter”, in Indogermanische Forschungen. Anzeiger für indogermanische Sprach- und Altertumskunde. Beiblatt zu den Indogermanischen Forschungen (in German), volume 10, page 47 of 41–50
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 247
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “եզր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy