# մոր
## Armenian
### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /moɾ/, [moɾ]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /moɾ/, [moɾ]

### Etymology 1

From Old Armenian մոր (mor).

#### Alternative forms

* մոռ (moṙ) — dialectal

#### Noun

մոր • (mor)
* blackberry (the fruit)
* raspberry (the fruit of Rubus idaeus)
    Synonym: ազնվամորի (aznvamori)
* wild strawberry (the fruit of Fragaria vesca)

##### Derived terms

* արքայամոր (arkʻayamor)

#### References

* Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “մոր”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House

### Etymology 2

From Old Armenian մօր (mōr).

#### Alternative forms

* մօր (mōr) — traditional orthography

#### Noun

մոր • (mor)
* (dated) swamp, marsh
    Synonym: ճահիճ (čahič)

##### Declension
#### References

* Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “մոր”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House

## Middle Armenian
### Noun

մոր • (mor)
* Alternative form of մորմ (morm)

## Old Armenian
### Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Similar words are found in Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages: Ancient Greek μόρον (móron, “black mulberry; blackberry”); Latin mōrum (“mulberry; blackberry”); Welsh merwydden (“mulberry; blackberry”), Old Irish smér (“blackberry”); Hittite [script needed] (mu-uri-uš, “grape”); Chechen муьрг (mürg, “guelder rose”); Ossetian муркъӕ (murk’æ, “guelder rose”); Lezgi мере (mere, “blackberry”); Georgian მარწყვი (marc̣q̇vi, “wild strawberry”); Azerbaijani moruq (“raspberry”); Proto-Finno-Ugric *mërja (“berry”). The interrelationship of these is unclear.
Possibly related to Middle Armenian մոշ (moš, “blackberry”), if from earlier *mor-s-.

### Noun

մոր • (mor)
* blackberry (the fruit of bramble)

#### Declension

the instrumental singular and the genitive/dative/instrumental plural are not attested, which does not allow determining whether the word followed an i-type or an i-a-type declension

#### Derived terms

* մորենի (moreni)

#### Descendants

* Armenian: մոր (mor)
* ⇒ Middle Armenian: մորմ (morm), մորի (mori)

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մոր”, 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) “մորի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Bläsing, Uwe (2019) “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 33–34
* J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 72, 588
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 474
* Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mer(ʔ)V”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, page 804f
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մոր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy