լար

Inherited from Old Armenian լար (lar).

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

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լար • (lar)

1. rope, rein, cable, cord, string

   էլեկտրական լար ― ēlektrakan lar ― electric wire

   նվագարանի լար ― nvagarani lar ― string of a musical instrument

2. (geometry) chord
3. (Lori, Ghazakh, Karabakh) long and narrow strip of tilled land^[1][2][3]

   Hypernym: արտ (art)

   • Armenian folk riddle The Sun and the Moon:^[4]

     Էն ի՞նչն ա, ինչ․
     Լար ու լար,
     Երկար ու լար․
     Էրկու կաքավ,
     Գնալ ու գալ։

     Ēn i^?nčʻn a, inčʻ;
     Lar u lar,
     Erkar u lar;
     Ērku kakʻav,
     Gnal u gal.

4. (dialectal) one side of a stable along its length^[1][2]

• Gabamačean, Simon (1910) “լար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hayerēn Lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Constantinople: R. Sakayan press, page 567b

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ulh₁ro- and cognate with Ancient Greek εὔληρα (eúlēra, “reins”) and Latin lōrum (“thong, rawhide whip, rein”). In view of phonological difficulties Martirosyan considers this a Mediterranean substrate term.

լար • (lar)

1. rope, rein, cable, cord, string

   լար աղեղան ― lar ałełan ― bow-string

   լար խեղդման ― lar xełdman ― halter, rope

2. plumb line of stone-masons

   լար շինողաց ― lar šinołacʻ ― plumb line

3. snare

   լարիւ թակարդել, լարս ձգել յորոգայթ ― lariw tʻakardel, lars jgel yorogaytʻ ― to lay, or set snares, to inveigle, to set gins

4. mile
5. tendons of the neck
6. string of a musical instrument

   լար անյարդար ― lar anyardar ― a false chord

7. kind of a snake (because of its shape)

• Armenian: լար (lar)
• → Old Georgian: ლარი (lari)
  • Georgian: ლარი (lari), ლარო (laro)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “լար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “լար”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “լար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 304
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 70