որոր

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian որոր (oror)

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [vɔˈɾɔɾ]

որոր • (oror)

1. seagull, gull, Larus

• ճայ (čay)

• Łazaryan, Ṙuben S. (2001), “որոր”, in Kendanineri anunneri hayeren-ṙuseren-latineren kargabanakan baṙaran. Girkʿ B. Tʿṙčʿunner [An Armenian–Russian–Latin Taxonomic Dictionary of Animal Names. Book II. Birds] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: Macmillan Armenia, →ISBN, § 189, page 22

A reduplicated formation from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-. Cognate with Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“eagle”), Middle Armenian ուրուր (urur, “kite”), Proto-Slavic *orь̃lъ (“eagle”).

որոր • (oror)

1. gull, Larus
   • 5th century, Bible, Leviticus 11.16:

     եւ ջայլեամն, եւ բու, եւ որոր, եւ որ ինչ նման իցէ նոցա […]

     ew ǰayleamn, ew bu, ew oror, ew or inčʿ nman icʿē nocʿa […]

     the ostrich, the owl, the gull, and any of their kind […]

• շնորոր (šnoror), շնօրօր (šnōrōr)

• Armenian: որոր (oror)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “ուրուր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 618ab
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “որոր”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 536a
• Fortson, Benjamin W. (2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, second edition, Oxford: Blackwell, page 387
• Łazarean, Ṙ. S. (2000), “որոր”, in Tʿosunean G. B., editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 350a
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “որոր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 570b