լավազ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Recorded in the dialects of Van and Moks, in the latter as լավազիկ (lavazik, “ailing, skinny”).

Borrowed from Northern Kurdish lawaz (“thin, slim, slender, lean; skinny; weak”).

Adjective

լավազ • (lavaz)

  1. (dialectal, Van) very thin, slim, slender, lean

Derived terms
  • լավազիկ (lavazik)
  • լավազ-մավազ (lavaz-mavaz)
  • լանկլավազ (lanklavaz)

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), “լաւազ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 414a
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 135
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 304–306
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “լավազ”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectological Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 204b
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