կոռ

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

Probably of the same origin as Old Armenian կոր (kor).

կոռ • (koṙ) (superlative ամենակոռ)

1. (dialectal) curved, crooked

կոռ • (koṙ)

1. (dialectal) shepherd's crook

From Middle Armenian կոռ (koṙ).

կոռ • (koṙ)

1. (historical) corvee

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “կոր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

From Old Armenian կոռ (koṙ) (in an inscription from 992, possibly also in the Canon of the Council of Dvin of 645), of uncertain origin. Adontz derives from an Iranian descendant of Proto-Iranian *kā́rah (“work, deed”), whence Middle Persian [script needed] (kʾl /⁠kār⁠/), Persian کار (kâr), Tajik кор (kor), Judeo-Tat кор (kor), Tat kår, Talysh кор (kor, “work”), but a Middle Iranian borrowing from this root would yield *կար (*kar) (compare -կար (-kar)).

The similarity with French corvée is accidental.

կոռ • (koṙ) (genitive singular կոռի)

1. forced labor, unpaid labor, corvee

• կոռավար (koṙavar)

• Armenian: կոռ (koṙ)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կոռ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 638a
• Adonc, N. (1908) Армения в эпоху Юстиниана: Политическое состояние на основе нахарарскаго строя [Armenia in the period of Justinian: The political conditions based on the naxarar system] (Тексты и разыскания по армяно-грузинской филологии; XI) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 486, footnote 2
• Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 253–254
• Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “կոռ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1945) Kerest Haig, editor, Étude philologique et lexicographique de 6000 mots et noms arméniens avec des comparaisons de 100.000 mots de 900 langues et des données historiques et géographiques‎^[1] (in French), London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., page 226, comparing to the family of Hebrew כּוֹר (kor, “a measure of weight”), as well as to Ancient Greek κόρος (kóros)
• Manandyan, Hakob (1981) Erker [Works] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 107–115
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “կոռ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎^[2], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, pages 379–380
• Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “կօռ”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 399a