հող

Inherited from Old Armenian հող (hoł).

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

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հող • (hoġ)

1. earth
2. soil

   բերքառատ հող ― berkʻaṙat hoġ ― fertile soil

3. land

   հայկական հողեր ― haykakan hoġer ― Armenian lands

4. (figuratively) grave

• → Northern Kurdish: hox

Together with Aghwan 𐕆𐕒𐔾 (hol, “clay”) borrowed from an unidentified Middle Iranian cognate of Northern Kurdish xwelî. See it for more.

հող • (hoł)

1. earth, ground, soil

   հողի գլուխ լինել, հող արկանել զգլխով ― hołi glux linel, hoł arkanel zglxov ― to throw dust or ashes on one's head

2. land, territory, dominions; plot, estate
3. (figuratively) burial plot, grave

   ի հող իջանել/ննջել ― i hoł iǰanel/nnǰel ― to be buried

   հողոյ եւ պատանաց չլինել արժանի ― hołoy ew patanacʻ čʻlinel aržani ― to be unworthy of burial, of funeral honours; to be left unburied, without a tomb

   տալ հողոյ զմարմին ― tal hołoy zmarmin ― to inter, to bury, to entomb

• Armenian: հող (hoġ)
  • → Northern Kurdish: hox

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “հող”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 111–112
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “հող”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 415
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հող”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy