սոր

• IPA^(key): [soɾ]

From Old Armenian սոր (sor); see below.

սոր • (sor)

1. hole, bore, opening, orifice, mouth
2. cave, cavern
3. den, lair, burrow, nest of an animal (built in a hole)

From սորալ (soral, “to leak, flow”).

սոր • (sor)

1. the act of leaking, flowing

   սոր տալ ― sor tal ― (of flour) to pour from under the millstone; (of bees) to pour out from the beehive

2. (archaic) pebbles brought in by floods

• Ałayan, Ēduard (1976), “սոր”, in Ardi hayereni bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Modern Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱouH-r-o-. The closest cognates are Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “hole”) and Latin caverna. Other cognates include Ancient Greek κῶος (kôos, “caves, dens”), κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”), Latin cava (“a hollow”), cavo (“to dig”), cavus (“hollow, excavated”), Persian سوراخ‎ (sūrāx, “hole, orifice”), etc.

սոր • (sor)

1. hole, bore, opening, orifice, mouth
2. cave, cavern
3. den, lair, burrow, nest of an animal (built in a hole)

• Armenian: սոր (sor)
• Georgian: სორო (soro)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “սոր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “սոր”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “սոր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press