եղեռն

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian եղեռն (ełeṙn, “calamity”). According to Ačaṙyan, the sense of "crime" is a modern literary development.

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

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եղեռն • (eġeṙn)

1. crime, evil deed
2. (archaic) calamity, catastrophe, disaster
3. (sometimes capitalized) Meds Yeghern
4. (by extension) any massacre, slaughter

• (Meds Yeghern): Մեծ Եղեռն (Mec Eġeṙn)

• Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “եղեռն”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

Ačaṙyan rejects the proposals to link with եղար (ełar, “lamentation”) and leaves the origin open. According to Pokorny, inherited from the Proto-Indo-European *h₃elh₁- (“to destroy”). This is accepted by Ałayan and J̌ahukyan.

եղեռն • (ełeṙn)

1. calamity, catastrophe, disaster

   եղեռն գտանել ― ełeṙn gtanel ― to experience misfortune, losses; to risk, to be in danger

• փորձանք (pʻorjankʻ), չարիք (čʻarikʻ), աղէտ (ałēt)

• → Armenian: եղեռն (eġeṙn) (learned)

• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “եղեռն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “եղեռն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “եղեռն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 17ab
• Aġayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʻnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʻyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 17–18
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 121