ժուռ

From Middle Armenian ժուռ (žuṙ).

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

ժուռ • (žuṙ) (dialectal)

1. unripe grapes, sour grapes

   Synonym: ազոխ (azox)

   • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani page 23:^[1]

     ժուռ․ ակրէսթէ

     žuṙ; akrēstʻē

     ժուռ (žuṙ) = agreste

2. wild grapes
3. (Khotorjur) grapes (all grapes in Khotorjur being sour, the word has replaced there խաղող (xaġoġ))

   Synonym: խաղող (xaġoġ)

ժուռ • (žuṙ) (superlative ամենաժուռ) (dialectal)

1. unripe

   Synonyms: խակ (xak), տհաս (thas)

2. sour

   Synonym: թթու (tʻtʻu)

3. (figuratively) undeveloped
4. (figuratively) sour, sullen

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “ժուռ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 394a
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “ժուռ”, 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 234a
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “ժուռ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 163ab

An Iranian borrowing: compare Northern Kurdish jûr,^[1] cûr, Central Kurdish ژێڵ (jêll),^[2] ھاڵەژێر (hallejêr, “grapevine blossom”)^[3] and Persian غوره (ğure, “unripe grapes, sour grapes”).

ժուռ • (žuṙ)

1. unripe grapes, sour grapes

   Synonym: ազոխ (azox)

The form *ժիռ (*žiṙ) given in NHB^[4] does not exist. It was back-formed from the ablative ի ժըռէն (i žəṙēn).

ժուռ • (žuṙ)

1. unripe

   Synonym: խակ (xak)

• Armenian: ժուռ (žuṙ)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “ժուռ”, 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 234a, unknown origin
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “ժուռ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 840a
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “ժուռ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 282b, unknown origin
• Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “ժուռ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 259b
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “ժուռ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎, edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 244