ջրիմուռ

• ջրմուռ (ǰrmuṙ), ջրի մուռ (ǰri muṙ) — rare

Learned borrowing from Middle Armenian ջրիմուռ (ǰrimuṙ). Revived by Norayr who put this as a translation of French algue.^[1] Appeared in dictionaries published after Norayr,^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} and now adopted as the standard word for "alga".

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

ջրիմուռ • (ǰrimuṙ)

1. alga

   Synonyms: խոզ (xoz), լոռ (loṙ), գորտնբուրդ (gortnburd)

Probably formed as ջրի (ǰri, “water's”) +‎ *մուռ (*muṙ, “moss”), the simplex of reduplicated մամուռ (mamuṙ, “moss”).

ջրիմուռ • (ǰrimuṙ)

1. common duckweed (Lemna minor)^[1]

   Synonym: ջրի գորտնբուրդ (ǰri gortnburd)

   • 1614 – 1622, Asar Sebastacʻi, Girkʻ bžškakan arhesti  :^[2]

     Ջրիմուռն, որ է խոզն և այլ ասեն գորդան բուրդ։

     J̌rimuṙn, or ē xozn ew ayl asen gordan burd.

• → Armenian: ջրիմուռ (ǰrimuṙ) (learned)

• Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “ջրի մուռ”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 2648, page 547
• Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “խօզ”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1167, page 267
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (1882–1884) “algue”, in Baṙagirkʻ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionnaire français-arménien], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 42a
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “ջրիմուռն”, 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 668
• Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “ջրի գորտնբուրդ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 673a