ձոր

From Old Armenian ձոր (jor).

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

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ձոր • (jor)

1. gorge, ravine; canyon

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoworo-, from *ǵʰowero-, from *ǵʰew- (“to pour”), with a semantic development ‘to pour, spill, gush’ → ‘bed of torrential stream, ravine’.

Alternatively, and less likely, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoh₁ro- (“gap, empty space”), whence Ancient Greek χῶρος (khôros), Tocharian B kāre (“pit, hole”).

ձոր • (jor)

1. valley, ravine
2. bed of a torrent

• Armenian: ձոր (jor)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ձոր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ձոր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ձոր”, 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 438