սոր

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [soɾ]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [soɾ]

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian սոր (sor).

սոր • (sor)

1. hole, bore, opening, orifice, mouth
2. cave, cavern
3. den, lair, burrow, nest of an animal (built in a hole)

Deverbal from սորալ (soral, “to leak, flow”).

սոր • (sor)

1. the act of leaking, flowing

   սոր տալ ― sor tal ― (of flour) to pour from under the millstone; (of bees) to pour out from the beehive

2. (archaic) pebbles brought in by floods

• Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “սոր”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱowH-r-o-. The closest cognates are Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “hole”) and Latin caverna. Other cognates include Ancient Greek κῶος (kôos, “caves, dens”), κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”), Latin cava (“a hollow”), cavo (“to dig”), cavus (“hollow, excavated”), Persian سوراخ (surâx, “hole, orifice”), etc.

սոր • (sor)

1. hole, bore, opening, orifice, mouth
2. cave, cavern
3. den, lair, burrow, nest of an animal (built in a hole)

• → Armenian: սոր (sor) (learned)
• → Old Georgian: სოროჲ (soroy)
  • Georgian: სორო (soro)
    • → Armenian: սորո (soro) — Tbilisi

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “սոր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սոր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1899) “Hübschmann H.: Armenische Grammatik. I. Theil. Armenische Etymologie. II. Abteilung. Die syrischen und griechischen Lehnwörter im Altarmenischen und die echtarmenischen Wörter”, in Indogermanische Forschungen. Anzeiger für indogermanische Sprach- und Altertumskunde. Beiblatt zu den Indogermanischen Forschungen (in German), volume 10, page 49 of 41–50
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սոր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy