լոր

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) quail,

Etymology
The origin is.

Often connected with 🇨🇬, and both considered either  onomatopoeias based on the verb "to shriek, cry out" (compare ) or borrowings from a "Mediterranean substrate". Greppin considers these proposals difficult, because the quail's voice at the most could be considered chattering and because of the semantic difficulty of relating an unappetizing sea bird with the commonly eaten field bird.

Note that the compound contains as its second component a reflex of, which was not used in Armenian independently but is present in another compound, , wholly borrowed from Iranian. Therefore, may also be wholly borrowed from an unidentified Iranian compound, with  reflecting the simplex of that Iranian word. In this respect compare 🇨🇬,, , ,  known to Ačaṙyan but who considers the similarity accidental.

Noun

 * 1) common quail,