հեր

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

The regular development of Old Armenian հայր (hayr) in dialects. Doublet of հայր (hayr), a learned borrowing from Old Armenian.

հեր • (her)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of հայր (hayr)

• հէր (hēr) — traditional orthography

From Old Armenian էր (ēr).

հեր • (her)

1. (interrogative pronoun, dialectal) why

   Հե՞ր քրիստոնյա չես

   He^?r kʻristonya čʻes

   Why are you not a Christian?

• հէր (hēr) — traditional orthography

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian հեր (her).

հեր • (her) (dated)

1. hair (on one's head)

The origin is unknown. The similarity to Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”) is accidental.

հեր • (her)

1. hair (on one's head)

   Synonyms: մազ (maz), վարս (vars), գէս (gēs), ծամ (cam)

• → Armenian: հեր (her), հերք (herkʻ) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հեր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 84–85
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “հեր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Holst, Jan Henrik (2009) Armenische Studien (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 135, connects with Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón) and derives from *pter- (“feather”)
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “հեր”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 458a
• Kocharov, Petr (2018) “Annotated Swadesh wordlists for the Armenian group (Indo-European family)”, in The Global Lexicostatistical Database‎, 36. HAIR
• Ġazarean, Ṙubēn (2006) “հեր”, in Grabari homanišneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian Synonyms], Yerevan: University Press
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 941
• Petersson, Herbert (1920) Arische und armenische Studien (Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. Avd. 1, Bd. 16. Nr. 3) (in German), Lund, Leipzig, page 99, connects with Lithuanian pùrė, Russian топы́рить (topýritʹ), топо́рщить (topórščitʹ), and derives from Proto-Indo-European *per-o-
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հեր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Scheftelowitz, J. (1905) “Zur altarmenischen lautgeschichte”, in Beiträge zur kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 29, page 33, connects with Sanskrit पर्ष (parṣá)