սարսուռ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian սարսուռ (sarsuṙ).

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

սարսուռ • (sarsuṙ)

1. shiver, chill (due to cold, fear, etc.)
2. spasm during the agony of death, death throe
3. fear, terror
4. (figuratively) ripple
5. (figuratively) something that causes shivering or fear

• սառսուռ (saṙsuṙ)

Originally a reduplication of *սառ- (*saṙ-), the root of սառն (saṙn, “cold, frozen”) (see there for more), with the development *սառսառ (*saṙsaṙ) → սառսուռ (saṙsuṙ) → սարսուռ (sarsuṙ).

սարսուռ • (sarsuṙ)

1. shiver, trembling, chill due to cold or fear

• → Armenian: սարսուռ (sarsuṙ) (learned)

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• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սարսուռ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Aytənean, Arsēn (1866) Kʻnnakan kʻerakanutʻiwn ašxarhabar kam ardi hayerēn lezui. Kʻerakanutʻiwn [Critical Grammar of the Vernacular or Modern Armenian Language: Grammar], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 309
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1988) “Stugabanutʻyunner [Etymologies]”, in Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri [Herald of the Social Sciences]‎ (in Armenian), number 11, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 74 of 69–75
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սարսուռ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy