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քառ

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Old Armenian

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Old Armenian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : քառ (kʻaṙ)
    Ordinal : քառորդ (kʻaṙord)
    Adverbial : քառիցս (kʻaṙicʻs)
    Multiplier : քառակի (kʻaṙaki)

Etymology

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From Proto-Armenian *kʷtwr̥-, zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (four), whence also չորք (čʻorkʻ).

Numeral

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քառ (kʻaṙ)

  1. four

Usage notes

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Classically used only in compounds, post-classically also independently, meaning “four”.

Declension

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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References

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  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “քառ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “քառ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “քառ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “*k‘aṙ-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 656