դար

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /dɑɾ/, [dɑɾ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /tɑɾ/, [tʰɑɾ]

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From Old Armenian դար (dar).

դար • (dar)

1. century, 100 years
2. age, epoch

   միջին դարեր ― miǰin darer ― Middle Ages

   քարի դար ― kʻari dar ― Stone Age

From Old Armenian դար (dar).

դար • (dar)

1. hill, hillock, knoll

A Semitic borrowing: compare Akkadian 𒁕𒅈 (dār, “continually, ever, forever; era, eternity, time, century”), Ugaritic 𐎄𐎗 (dr, “cycle, generation”), Aramaic דָּרָא (dārā), Classical Syriac ܕܪܐ (dārā, “age, century”).

դար • (dar)

1. age, long period of time of 100, 1000 or unspecified number of years

   ոսկի, ոսկեղինիկ դար ― oski, oskełinik dar ― the Golden Age

   միջին դար ― miǰin dar ― the Middle Ages

   ի մերում դարու ― i merum daru ― in our times

   դարուց ի դարս ― darucʻ i dars ― from age to age, for ever and ever

2. generation

• Armenian: դար (dar)
• → Cappadocian Greek: ταρός (tarós)
• →? Georgian: დარი (dari)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 631
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “դար”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ 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 22
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎^[1] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 477
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 931
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “դար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

Borrowed from an Iranian descendant of Proto-Iranian *dā́raH, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃-: compare Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁 (dārā, “cutting edge, blade”), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā, “edge, blade”), Pashto لور (lor, “side, direction”).

դար • (dar)

1. brink, steep place
   1. height, hill, eminence, precipice

      Synonym: բարձրաւանդակ (barjrawandak)

   2. headland, promontory, cape

      Synonym: հրուանդան (hruandan)

   3. bank

      դարիւ եւ դարիւ գալ ― dariw ew dariw gal ― to come, to flow in many waves or surges

• Armenian: դար (dar)
• → Udi: дар (dar), дардар (dardar)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 631–632
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “դար”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Bolognesi, Giancarlo (1962) “Rapporti lessicali tra l’armeno e l’iranico [Lexical relations between Armenian and Iranian]”, in Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, Rendiconti, Classe di lettere e scienze morali e storiche (in Italian), volume 96, Milan, pages 253–255
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 876
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “դար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy