Armenian

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Etymology

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A modern literary word, probably a back-formation from առապար (aṙapar) and ապառաժ (apaṙaž), as if those contain a root *ապար (*apar). The back-formation was motivated by the variant spelling առ յապարի (aṙ yapari) of the locative յառապարի (yaṙapari) found in one manuscript.

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Noun

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ապար (apar)

  1. (geology) rock, layer

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