եզր

From Old Armenian եզր (ezr).

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• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ˈjezəɾ/, [jézəɾ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ˈjezəɾ/, [jézəɾ]

եզր • (ezr)

1. bank; shore
2. border, edge; brink; extremity
3. skirt, flap, lap, hem
4. border, boundary, limit
5. rib
6. conclusion, finding; deduction
7. term (word or phrase from a specialised area of knowledge)

• (term): տերմին (termin)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰ-er-, from *h₁eǵʰ- (“balk, border”). Cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera (“lake”), Lithuanian ežià (“boundary-strip”), Latvian eža (“balk”), Russian яз (jaz, “fish weir”).

եզր • (ezr)

1. edge (of a cloth, ravine, city, etc.)
2. shore (of a sea, river, etc.)
   • 7th century, Anania Širakacʻi, Yałags harcʻman ew lucman [On Questions and Solutions] 7:

     եւ երթեալ յեզր գետոյն, որու Ախուրեանն կոչեն

     ew ertʻeal yezr getoyn, oru Axureann kočʻen

     and I went to the shore of the river, which they call Axurean

3. limit, term
4. end

   եզր ունել, յեզր ելանել ― ezr unel, yezr elanel ― to end, to terminate

• Armenian: եզր (ezr), եզերք (ezerkʻ)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “եզր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “եզր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1899) “Hübschmann H.: Armenische Grammatik. I. Theil. Armenische Etymologie. II. Abteilung. Die syrischen und griechischen Lehnwörter im Altarmenischen und die echtarmenischen Wörter”, in Indogermanische Forschungen. Anzeiger für indogermanische Sprach- und Altertumskunde. Beiblatt zu den Indogermanischen Forschungen (in German), volume 10, page 47 of 41–50
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 247
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “եզր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy