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From Old Armenian*մոշ(*moš), attested in մոշավայրի(mošavayri), of uncertain origin. Possibly from earlier *mor-s- and related to մոր(mor, “blackberry”).
The frequently cited alternative form *մոշայ(*mošay) is a ghost form deduced from մոշա-վայրի(moša-vayri, “wild tamarisk”). Included in modern dictionaries as մոշա(moša, “tamarisk”).
In the Galen dictionary, մոշի(moši) translates Ancient Greek μυρίκη(muríkē, “tamarisk”), and in the Bible մոշավայրի(mošavayri) translates Ancient Greek ἀγριομυρίκη(agriomuríkē, literally “wild tamarisk”). Hence, it is assumed մոշ(moš) also meant "tamarisk". But Middle Armenian attestations and the dialectal material unequivocally point to the blackberry. We may be dealing with approximate translations.
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Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “մոշ”, 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 521
