երամ

• էրամ (ēram) — dialectal

From Old Armenian երամ (eram).

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

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երամ • (eram)

1. flock, flight (of birds)
2. swarm, bevy (of bees)
3. shoal, school (of fish)

• խորդերամ (xorderam)

• րամ (ram) — poetic short form

From Parthian. Compare Manichaean Parthian rm (*ram, “flock”), Middle Persian lm (*ram, “herd, flock”), Manichaean Middle Persian rm (*ram, “flock”), Persian رم (ram). Related to երամակ (eramak) and ռամ (ṙam).

երամ • (eram)

1. troop, flock, assembly, company (of people, animals, fish, etc.)

   երամ երամ ― eram eram ― in several troops, in company

   երամ թռչնոց ― eram tʻṙčʻnocʻ ― flight

   երամ hoտից, անդեայց ― eram hoticʻ, andeaycʻ ― flock, herd

2. (as an adjective) gathered, assembled

• Armenian: երամ (eram)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “երամ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “երամ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “երամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 8