որձ

From Old Armenian որձ (orj).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /voɾt͡sʰ/, [voɾt͡sʰ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /voɾt͡s/, [voɾt͡sʰ]

որձ • (orj) (superlative ամենաորձ)

1. male (of an animal)

   որձ եւ էգ ― orj ew ēg ― male and female

2. (dialectal) hard (said of radish used as seeds)
3. (dialectal) hard, rugged (said e.g. of a woman)

որձ • (orj)

1. male (of an animal)

• որձակ (orjak)

Of the same origin as որձիք (orjikʻ, “testicles”).

որձ • (orj)

1. male (said both of humans and animals)
   • 7th century, Anania Širakacʻi, Ašxarhacʻoycʻ [Geography]:

     Եւ զռնգնեղջիւր գազանէն ասեն թէ յՈվկիանոսէ անցանեն ընդ Ենտոս-Լիբիա մինչեւ ցՆեղոս, եւ նման են գետաձիոյ եւ ամենեքեան որձ են․

     Ew zṙngnełǰiwr gazanēn asen tʻē yOvkianosē ancʻanen ənd Entos-Libia minčʻew cʻNełos, ew nman en getajioy ew amenekʻean orj en;

     • 1992 translation by Robert H. Hewsen

       They tell of rhinoceroses which roam from the Ocean to Inner Libya as far as the Nile; they resemble the hippopotamus and are all males.

2. very hard, rugged (said of objects)
3. male (of a plant)
4. unfertile

• Armenian: որձ (orj)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “որձ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “որձ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “որձ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎^[1], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 82