լուրջ

From Old Armenian լուրջ (lurǰ).

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

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լուրջ • (lurǰ) (superlative ամենալուրջ)

1. serious
2. (rare) blue

• լրջություն (lrǰutʻyun)
• անլուրջ (anlurǰ)

լուրջ • (lurǰ)

1. seriously

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *ḱluH-r-yo- ~ *ḱluH-r-yeh₂- (“light, bright, clear, clean, joyful”). Cognates include Latin cluo (“I clean”), Welsh clir (“light, bright, clear, clean, joyful”), Lithuanian šlúoti (“to wipe”), Ancient Greek κλύζω (klúzō), Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌿𐍄𐍂𐍃 (hlūtrs, “pure, clean”). See also the by-form լուրթ (lurtʻ).

լուրջ • (lurǰ)

1. *light, *shiny (this sense is unattested, but is apparent from compounds)
2. light blue; blue
3. cheerful, awake, sober, bright-minded

   ի լրջեաց, ի լրջուց, ի լրջէ ― i lrǰeacʻ, i lrǰucʻ, i lrǰē ― in a waking state

4. serious

   լուրջ երեսօք ― lurǰ eresōkʻ ― seriously

   ի բարբառ լուրջ ― i barbaṙ lurǰ ― with a serious voice

• Armenian: լուրջ (lurǰ)
• → Georgian: ლურჯი (lurǯi)
  • → Mingrelian: ლურჯი (lurǯi)
  • → Svan: ჲჷრჟი (yərži)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “լուրջ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “լուրջ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “լուրջ”, 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 322