lûr
See also: lur and lúr
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Armenian լոր (lor), which in Moks dialect is լո̈ւր (lür).
Noun
lûr ?[1][2]
- (Moks) quail
References
- Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879), “لور”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 382
- Orbeli, I. A. (2002), “lûr”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.2) (in Russian), edited by Ž. S. Musaeljan and I. I. Cukerman from the author's manuscript written during his 1911–1912 Moks expedition, Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 115b
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “լոր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 298a
- Greppin, John A. C. (1978) Classical and Middle Armenian bird names: A linguistic, taxonomic, and mythological study, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 82