پاراو

From Old Armenian պառաւ (paṙaw, “old woman”).

پاراو (paraw) ?

1. old woman; an Armenian nurse

• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “պառաւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

Akin to Old Armenian պառաւ (paṙaw), an Iranian borrowing. Compare Bandar Abbasi dialect پرو (parow, “heifer”).

پاراو • (pârâv)

1. old woman

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “پاراو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul