նիրհ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian նիրհ (nirh).

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

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նիրհ • (nirh)

1. light sleep, slumber, dozing

   Synonyms: (dialectal) փինեքի (pʻinekʻi), նինջ (ninǰ)

2. sleep

   Synonym: քուն (kʻun)

• “նիրհ”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980

Borrowed from an unattested Middle Iranian descendant of Proto-Indo-Iranian *HnidráH, whence Sanskrit निद्रा (nidrā́, “sleep”). The Armenian is the only evidence for the existence of this word in Iranian.

նիրհ • (nirh)

1. light sleep, drowsiness, sleepiness, dozing

   նիրհ առնուլ, նիրհ անկանել ումեք ― nirh aṙnul, nirh ankanel umekʻ ― to fall into a doze, to begin to nod, to doze, to nap, to be drowsy, to drop off to sleep, to take a nap or snooze

• → Armenian: նիրհ (nirh) (learned)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “նիրհ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “նիրհ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “նիրհ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press