ղուսուր

Armenian

Alternative forms
  • խուսուր (xusur), կուսուր (kusur)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قصور‎ (kusur), from Arabic قُصُور‎ (quṣūr).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ղուսուր • (łusur) (dialectal)

  1. faulty, deficient, flawed
    Synonyms: թերի (tʿeri), թերատ (tʿerat)

Noun

ղուսուր • (łusur) (dialectal)

  1. fault, defect, flaw
    Synonyms: պակասություն (pakasutʿyun), թերություն (tʿerutʿyun)
  2. offence
    Synonym: հանցանք (hancʿankʿ)
  3. remainder
    Synonyms: մնացուք (mnacʿukʿ), մնացյալը (mnacʿyalə)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 38:[1]
      ղուսուր․ ռէսթօ
      łusur; ṙēstʿō
      ղուսուր (łusur) = resto

References
  1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019), “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 232

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), “խուսուր”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
  • Hiwrmiwzean, Eduard (1869), “խուսուր”, in Baṙgirkʿ yašxarhabaṙē i grabaṙ [New Armenian – Old Armenian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 237b
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قصور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1457b
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