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Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) apple

Etymology
(possibly to be transcribed ḫnzor(i)), or its unattested cognate. The If the -uri of the Hurrian root ḫinz- itself is a suffix, a Dagestani source is suggested by Nielsen on comparison with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. A Dagestani > Urartian > Armenian path is possible. But since the date given for the Middle East is relatively imprecise and the exact path of spread remains unknown, separate loans into Dagestani and Urartian are also possible. 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and possibly 🇨🇬 are borrowed from Hurrian. The Urartian suffix behind is also found in, , and.
 * Since a term for wild apple is unlikely to have been borrowed given the Hurrian attestation and Urartian source for the Armenian word, the domesticate's path of spread is relevant in discriminating between a direct Dagestani > Hurrian and an indirect Unknown > (Dagestani, Hurrian) origin. Although a role of the native Caucasian species Malus orientalis in the domestication of Caucasian and even European cultivars of Malus domestica had previously been suggested,   it was not until 2012 that such introgression was genetically confirmed, the admixture being dated to approximately 4,500 years ago. Since this preceded the earliest secure attestation of apples in Mesopotamia, this opened the possibility that M. domestica arrived in North Mesopotamia from the Caucasus. In 2022 a study showed that Armenian landraces descend largely from native M. orientalis; the presence of some lowland ancestry may indicate a Dagestani role in the spread of the domesticated apple, but without a larger sample size, admixture/diversification dates could not be reliably computed, so the Armenian domestication event could date to a much later time (as with the Iranian landraces).

Noun

 * 1) apple fruit
 * 2) apple tree
 * 3)  the round part of the dome under the cross
 * 1)  the round part of the dome under the cross