որս

• հորս (hors) — dialectal

Inherited from Old Armenian որս (ors).

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

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որս • (ors)

1. hunt, hunting, catching, chase
2. game
3. catch, take, prey

• որսալ (orsal)

Perhaps inherited from Proto-Indo-European *porḱos (“fishing”), with the only surviving cognate being Ancient Greek πόρκος (pórkos, “fishing net”); the sense of “fishing” must have become more generalized in Armenian.^[1] It has been suggested that the dialectal form հորս (hors) still preserves the initial *p-.^[2]

որս • (ors)

1. chase, hunting, hunt, sport

   զբօսանք որսոյ ― zbōsankʻ orsoy ― field-sports

   եղանակ որսոյ ― ełanak orsoy ― shooting-season

   այր հմուտ որսոյ ― ayr hmut orsoy ― skilful hunter, a good sportsman, a mighty huntsman

   որս ձկանց ― ors jkancʻ ― fishing, fishery

   որս թռչնոց ― ors tʻṙčʻnocʻ ― shooting, fowling

   որս աղուեսուց ― ors ałuesucʻ ― fox-hunting

   որս վագերց ― ors vagercʻ ― tiger-hunting

   որս հեծանել ― ors hecanel ― to go a hunting or shooting

   յորս ածել ― yors acel ― to shoot wild beasts

2. prey; venison, game

   պահապան որսոյ ― pahapan orsoy ― game-keeper

3. bait, lure

• Armenian: որս (ors)

• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “որս”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “որս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy