արոյր

Borrowed from Parthian 𐫡𐫇𐫔‎ (rwδ /rōδ/), from Proto-Iranian *Hrawdáh (“copper, brass”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrawdʰás. The prothetic ա- (a-) is a regular inner-Armenian development as Armenian phonotactics do not allow a word to start with a ր- (r-).

արոյր • (aroyr)

1. brass (alloy of copper and zinc)

• արուրի (aruri)

• → Armenian: արույր (aruyr) (learned)
• →? Old Georgian: რვალი (rvali) (or directly from Iranian)
  • Georgian: რვალი (rvali)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “արոյր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 331ab
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 111
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “արոյր”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 8