աւար

Etymology

From Middle Iranian āvār. Compare Parthian ʾwʾr, Middle Persian [script needed] (āvār, “robbery”), Baluchi [script needed] (āvār, “spoil, plunder”), Pashto اوار‎ (avār, “plunder, spoil, prey, booty, pillage”), Classical Mandaic loanword [script needed] (ā̆vār, “plundering”); Georgian ავარი (avari), იავარი (iavari) according to Ačaṙyan is borrowed via Armenian.

Noun

աւար • (awar)

1. loot, spoils, booty; plunder, pillage, sacking

   լիաձեռն աւարաւ ― liajeṙn awaraw ― charged with plunder

   աւար առնուլ, ածել, հարկանել, յաւար մատնել, յաւարի առնուլ, տանել ― awar aṙnul, acel, harkanel, yawar matnel, yawari aṙnul, tanel ― to spoil, to make booty, to pillage, to sack, to plunder, to ravage

   յաւար մատնիլ ― yawar matnil ― to be a prey, to be given to pillage

References

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “աւար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “աւար”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 112
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “աւար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 355–356
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 517