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No Yervant. Look up at any good dictionary and see, it simply means CHARM(ing). Are you thinking of BERJ?

Based on thr above daffinishun Here is a picture of Hmayak http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/49299_1132634099_6701_n.jpg

The most famous and best known Hmayak is/was the poet Hamo Sahian, born as Hmayak Sahaki Grigorian

PS. Above I neglected to add that one of the most ccommon translation is TALISMAN

Good question. The more I search the more confused I get, depending who is defining**. All the way from wizardry and magic, Lest I confuse us I will make this concise. This was interesting and news to me. From the on line site; Above it is suggested that it means charm/blue bead, anti evil-eye. From what I have known the word is based on hmayk/charm, hmayel/to charm. Hence it would mean CHARMING, and HMAYICH would mean CHARMER. This is silly. http://unclestu.com/Delhi/snake-charmer.jpg ** See what Ed said above

My fervent hope and prayer is that his lifeless carcass is not found in a ditch at a highway.

Yes, yes by all means let us move them a million miles away from Yerevan. Let’s move them here Damascus, Pa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_Township,_Wayne_County,_Pennsylvania To (H)Alapama or to a suburb of Syriacus Syracuse, Or to New Lebanon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lebanon,_New_York Btw. What kind of Armenian language do those lawyers and applicants speak, that is beside dolma and basturma?

Yes it is comical. For some time I have not received spams like this= Hi, salam aleykum and allahuakbar. My name is bugabugabooboomanga. I am the president of the Nigerian bank in kookooboonga. We are holding a certified check for a zillion dollars in your name. All you have to do is send us a check for a grillion dollars and we will send you the check Seriously though. A taste of their own medicine?Is it time that some foreigners con and cheat the natives of Armenia who have been conning and cheating the foreigners?, I mean their own diasporan brothers and sisters?

SEVANI ISHKHAN About the name Sevan. Please note Geghama Tsov and Gegharkunik Tsov as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Sevan First the inane. Much like the joke that Yerevan was named so when that clown noah exclaimed “yerevats!” And the more serious; And now we come back to SEVANI ISHKHAN The virtually extinct famous fish at the Lake Sevan. About extinction., beside over fishing, pauching, the environmental and temperature fluctuation the introduction of that cannibalistic foreign (whte) fish popularly known as SIG. Note also, as Ishkhan is virtually extinct in the Lake Sevan it is thriving in Kyrgyzstan. Lake Trout http://www.lcbp.org/Photos/TROUT.jpg Rainbow Trout http://www.grandslamflyfishing.com/fish/photo/1/small/Rainbow_trout_color.jpg?1238047766 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevan_trout This site turns to rubbish. http://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D6%87%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%AB_%D5%AB%D5%B7%D5%AD%D5%A1%D5%B6 Above we read this. http://www.encyclopedia.am/pages.php?bId=1&hId=267 If you think the name of that delicious, albeit threatened to extinction fish Ishkhan means prince. Think again. I cannot find anywhere when and why that fish was named Ishkhan, loosely interpreted as Prince, which prince? When? See what the Greek word for Fish is; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys Btw. Above we see tht furks called it gokje/govje which simply means(sky) blue.

I will try this one more time. Here I wrote about my reservation that that Armenian Land was originally named Nakh Ijevan/First Landing. Below I asked,. Who or what that Nakhj was that the land was named Nakhj-Avan for? Leave it to that drunken idiot Noah.. Even todaym in the 21at C. m this age of science and knowledge our clownish Panjuni historiam,mistorians are still trying to connect our history, origin and destiny to that clown. Below we see that before we got to know that idiot noah/schmoah The only consolation is that the world in general and furks and asszeris call it by its Armenian soundin name Naikhichevan. See below. Before we got to know that history/schistory, the land was called Nakhjouan, Nakhjwan , that is before the OUA turned to VA, bfore the Hyun /W turned to Ve./V. Below( I cannot find it now) we also see that Khorenatsi and other historians have mentioned Nakhjouan. http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=29861#entry274754 ------ Nakhjouan, Nakhjwan or Nakh Ijevan, Nakhichevan? http://akunq.net/am/?p=15485 Drat and double drat! In the preview I could see the Armenian text, and see what chickn scratch it turned to in the end. I GIVE UP! I will join the silent majorty and asbstain from posting anything in Armenian. ---

Hi Ashot (Yerkat)Sanamian? Good to see again. Is that your real name? Do you know Emil Sanamian, an ex bakutsi,the present chief editor of the Armenian Reporter. I am sure you know that “sanam” is from the Persian to mean (pagan) statue much like that of Anahit. The furks pronounce it “senem”. I have known many an Armenian woman named so. See Senem Saatjian way at the bottom here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Evangelical_Central_High_School

OK! All you our omnipotent, all powerful, amenazor and omniscient, all knowing, amenaget mods and ads please go beck up to my post# 2, edit and correct it, and in the process tell us what it is that I did wrong, aside from the fact that it has been established that I am an idiot. Why did the URL site about pennames turn to chicken scratch and the youtube videos turned to GARBAGE!!!.?? Is it we are damned if we don't activate the HTML and double damned if we do? It is obvious that the systems needs some fine tuning. Don't ask me how. Remember that Ia am an idiot when it comes cyber-science.

A month or so ago, before the actual even David Boyajian wrote this. http://www.armenianweekly.com/2012/09/27/letter-to-editor-human-rights-lecture-at-heritage-park/print/ To which Dr. Carolann responded thusly. http://www.armenianweekly.com/2012/09/29/response-to-boyajian-letter-on-djerejian-lecture/print/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Djerejian Did he speak Armenian at that presentation? How and what kind Armenian does speak, that is beside shish (losh) kebab, dolma and basturma? Yeah! Right! Those are Armenian words like my geot/vorik!

On time at a TV program, the inteviewer tried to pronounce his surname, after much hemming and hoeing, mucxh perspiration he finally addressed him as Mr. DzhRzhian, o some such grbage. Just who is this clown dzhrzhoghlu-ian? What the h* kind of Armenian surname is djsredjian? I he an English speaking American ? Then what is this garbage of DJ? Doe he know that in the English the letter J sounds like the letter J. Besides his family name is blatantly furkish. **Perhaps that explains his total Europhilia. **Is “jere”/jar really furkish? Is he really a Christian Armenian? Does he read the New Testament? Has he seen what Jesus said about snakes and vipers? Does he mean that Armenia end its friendship with Moscow and Tehran and instead go to bed with vipers in ankakara, boku and DC? http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2012/11/01/former-ambassador-djerejian-speaks-at-annual-human-rights-lecture/ http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2012/11/01/ Former Ambassador Djerejian Speaks at Annual Human Rights Lecture News | November 1, 2012 10:51 am By Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff BOSTON — Former American ambassador to Israel and Syria, Edward Djerejian, was the speaker at the third annual K. George and Carolann Najarian Lecture on Human Rights in Faneuil Hall. Djerejian started off by joking that his daughter asked if he really is an expert on the Middle East, as other people have called him. When he responded in the affirmative, she quipped, “You haven’t done a very good job.” His talk was divided into geographical regions. Armenia and the Caucasus made up the last portion of the talk. Sounding at times like the Cold War veteran that he is, he figuratively wagged his finger at Armenia. Djerejian was unhappy with the choice of friends Armenia has made — Russia and Iran — and suggested it should get a “truly democratic and enlightened foreign policy.” He stressed that Azerbaijan and Georgia have instead cultivated strong ties with the west, which Armenia should emulate. He said the “US has made a concerted effort to help Armenia,” giving “$2 billion in development aid” to the nation. He noted, “Serious challenges remain,” including high unemployment, inflation and emigration by the young. He suggested Armenia had two problems it should solve in terms of foreign policy: its conflict with Azerbaijan and the stalled talks with Turkey. Djerejian stressed that Azerbaijan was escalating its arms race and that while now it was only paying lip service to renewed war with Armenia, it would be ready to battle Armenia for Karabagh by 2014. Thus, he said, Armenia should negotiate. “The time for diplomacy is now,” he said. “The diaspora should discourage the idea that time is on Armenia’s side.” With regard to Turkey and the issue of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, he suggested that “The most pragmatic way is state to state” diplomacy between Armenia and Turkey. While he praised the “soccer diplomacy” of President Serge Sargisian in 2009, when he visited Turkey to attend a soccer game between the teams of the two nations, he suggested that Armenia was responsible for the “failure to ratify” the Protocols drawn up by the US and facilitated by Switzerland, for establishing ties between Armenia and Turkey. “The stakes are simply too high,” he said, adding, “We Armenians can never forget the past. Our tragedy has made us the people we are today, yet I firmly believe that our first duty is to the future and the youth of Armenia.” Djerejian started off by saying he was a child of survivors of the Armenian Genocide, before delving into his representation of America’s foreign policy in the Middle East. He said America’s foreign policy could be seen in two modes: idealist (propagation of American values and principles around the world) and realist (national security interests). He proceeded to give details about both. In the idealist scenario, the US tries to encourage democratic values along the lines of the Bill of Rights around the world, helping the “sovereignty of the people and their institutional rights,” supporting “rule of law, equality before the law and free speech.” This approach, “Wilsonianism,” advocates for active global role in the spread of democracy,” he said. By contrast, actions taken to defend US national security, seek to secure political, military, energy and cyber security. This mode of thought, he said, is most identified with President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Djerejian’s talk was thorough and far-ranging with regards to politics and the changing face of the Middle East. He recalled that in answer to a question from a New York Times reporter on the Arab Spring, he called it “a tectonic shift in the makeup of Middle East politics.” He added, “We’re witnessing the end of post- colonialism in the Middle East.” Reaching back to the previous centuries, Djerejian blamed much of the semi-permanent state of chaos in the Middle East on the colonial powers — Britain, France and Italy — which had drawn maps of the countries according to their own needs. He spoke at length about — and against — the Syrian government, calling the al-Assad regime a “cleptocracy.” “Nobody has a real solution for Syria today. This regime thinks it is winning and major parts of the opposition think they are winning. There is no doubt in my mind that we’re on the verge of a post-Assad era,” he said. As for the Arab Spring, he said, “What is amazing is that there is no leadership. It is truly a grassroots and youth phenomenon.” With the collapse of the Soviet Union, he said, the State Department has been looking for its next “enemy,” and those are, or should be considered, extremism and terrorism rather than any specific group. “We have to influence regimes we are friends with in order to make them democratic,” he said, citing as an example Saudi Arabia. US foreign policy can vary from country to country. He noted President Obama’s decision to not support an old ally, Hosni Mubarak, in Egypt, instead allowing for — and demanding — a regime change. “He doubled the military there, allow- ing [Mubarak] to leave peacefully,” said Djerejian. However, another case, similar in nature, in Bahrain, has ended differ- ently, with a mere “slap,” as they are allies of firm US friends, Saudi Arabia. Djerejian is the founding director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. He served as ambassador to Syria from 1988 to 1991 and to Israel from 1992 to 1994. He has served in the US Foreign Service for eight presi- dents, from John F. Kennedy to William J. Clinton (1962-1994). Prior to his nomination by Clinton as US ambassador to Israel, he was assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs in both the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations. After retirement from government service in 1994, he became founding director of the Baker Institute. His book, Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador’s Journey Through the Middle East, was published by Simon & Schuster (2008). Among his many awards and honors, in 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and named to the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Starting off the program was James Kalustian, the president of the Armenian Heritage Foundation. He spoke about the dedi- cation of the Armenian Heritage Park, happily recounting that “the overflow crowd was truly representative of the overall tapestry that is Boston.” Dr. Carolann Najarian, in her remarks, paid tribute to Joshua Rubenstein, the northeast regional director of Amnesty International USA, who recently stepped down. Rubenstein, one of the co-chairs of the foundation, was present at the program and thanked the Najarians for their support. Djerejian was introduced by Dr. Joyce Barsam.

On the other hand, speaking of saber rattling, every other day we have been hearing that the Airport is ready and that the first flight will be today, tomorrow, this week or the next, this or next month, and that Pres. Sargisian has his luggage ready, to be the first passenger…. We don’t know whom to believe.

Saber rattling and teeth gnashing.. We have been hearing this empty rhetoric from both the east and west of Armenia for quite sometime. Shooting down civilian airplanes is an act of war. They also forget that daily hundreds of planes both furkish and asszeri fly over Yerevan and Stepanakert.

http://armenianow.com/news/40685/syria_armenians_bus_kidnapped_rebels_reisian ===== News | 31.10.12 | 10:38 Armenians kidnapped near Aleppo Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has confirmed reports that on October 29 ten passengers of a bus traveling from Beirut to Aleppo, among them seven Armenians, have been kidnapped. Five of the Armenian passengers have been identified, said MFA spokesman Tigran Balayan. They are: Garo Pampalian, Arsen Aroyan, Levon Zeitounian, and father and son Bashar and George Rabat. According to reports, armed men clad in black stopped the bus owned by Zeitouni Tours, an Armenian owned tour bus company half an hour before it was scheduled to reach Aleppo on Monday. They ordered women to leave the bus, after which they beat the remaining male passengers and took them away on a van. Jirair Reisian, spokesperson for Aleppo’s Armenian Prelacy, said community leaders were working on securing the safe return of the kidnapped to Aleppo, writes the Armenian Weekly. Reisian also denied that the kidnappers have demanded ransom. Earlier reports said the kidnappers demanded that the government release 150 prisoners within three days in exchange for the kidnapped, otherwise threatening to kill all of them. Also on Monday an Armenian church was burned in Aleppo and several Syrian Armenians were feared killed or wounded in a bomb blast in capital Damascus. About four dozen Syrian Armenians have reportedly been killed since the start of the conflict in Syria in March 2011. Hundreds of an estimated 80,000 Syrian Armenian, mostly concentrated in Aleppo, have taken refuge in Armenia since fighting between government and opposition forces reached the city last July. Source URL: http://armenianow.com/news/40685/syria_armenians_bus_kidnapped_rebels_reisian

Look who else had been at the Hotel Baron , a few hours before he was brutally murdered. See # 2 here http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=18078&hl=

Not a cheerfully Baron-like Story http://hetq.am/eng/articles/20010/the-forgotten-of-aleppo%E2%80%99s-hotel-baron.html http://hetq.am/static/news/b/2012/10/20010.jpg The Forgotten of Aleppo’s Hotel Baron 12:42, 30 October, 2012 By Flavia Amabile ‘Madame Flavia, Syria is finished, Aleppo is finished’. Armen Mazloumian pauses, maybe following a flashing thought. An ominous silence’s spreading all around: in Aleppo Baron Street has always been a busy road, crowded and jammed night and day, in the very heart of Aleppo, a five minute walk from the suq. Today it is a still street, totally mute but for the frequent clashes in the surroundings and for the noise of the loyalist troops headquartered nearby to protect the area. The Baron’s Hotel stands there, in the middle of the street as it does since 1911, when it opened its doors. Founded by Armen Mazloumian, the grandfather of the present owner, it gave its name to the street, a tribute and a homage since everyone knows it: Barons’ history mirrors Syria’s history. And everyone looks at the future of the hotel to understand the future of the country. It was a place of culture and power when Syria was a place of culture and power. T.H. Lawrence would have never slept anywhere else when he came back from his tours officially devoted to archaeological sites, actually following his role as intelligence officer and military adviser in the Middle East. The souvenirs of his stay at Baron’s lie in the hall on the right just after the entrance: sheets of paper of a wrong bill, letters, and pictures. Now the hall is closed, windows glasses were broken one week ago by the last grenade that went off in the street. It’s almost two years since when someone nosed around the precious showcase to look at the tiny calligraphy of the Englishman that wanted to lead the Arab revolt. The opposite door opens on the Baron’s bar, a kind of a tale among travelers in the past. Everyone stopped and astonished at its amazing British countryside furniture. No one ever saw anything of the kind in the very heart of Middle East. Sunk in the armchair in the right corner Agatha Christie wrote “Murder on The Orient-Express” during the 30s. In the following years people came from every corner of the world to grip that peculiar touch of the room. Today the most famous lounge hall among travelers and archaeologists of last century is closed, barred, and its windows blown to pieces too. ‘No one has ever tried to attack us – Armen Mazloumian tells – loyalist troops defend the street’. But who will protect them from bomb blasts? ‘Half of Alep fled to escape the fighting, the suq was pillaged and sacked, the Citadel damaged’. Who had the chance fled months ago when borders were open and streets safe. Armen remained. The hotel leans entirely on his shoulder. Koko, his father, the man that turned the Baron’s into one of the most charming hotels in Middle East, passed away. Sally, his mother, is a 92 years old lady , mostly spent reaching for a dream never come true. In 1945 she was a young, beautiful fleeing to leave London bombs behind. She was looking for a free and safe land and happened in Alep where she hoped to begin a new life, unaware that she’d meet again the nightmare from which she was running away 60 years before. It’s not easy to live these days in this sad town, once one of the main center of trades on the Silk Road. Sally doesn’t get out since long. Armen is an aging man, some serious diseases affect him and his medicines stock is running out. He too doesn’t go out, his legs can’t run anymore and flee to safety in case of bombings. A young boy helps him wandering in quest for food in the few stores still open. Armen can hardly go upstairs, to the first floor. The most imposing rooms are located there, the ones furnished with the fine hand-woven carpets collected by his grandfather in the beginning of XX century. Those are the rooms where guests such as Charles De Gaulle and Rockefeller slept. And the rooms where thousands of Armenians were saved in those years during the genocide committed by the Young Turks. And where were kept important documents definitely supporting the historical reconstruction of the Armenian genocide. For more than a century Middle East history has been parading on the Baron Hotel’s terrace and its fate depicted Syria’s destiny. In the next future Armen most urgent worry is to find some wooden planks to protect the hotel’s windows from grenades that will surely blast or where to find fuel to face the coming winter. This is Baron’s destiny now, served with the unpleasant feeling that this could be the last chapter of Baron’s and Syria book. «Madame Flavia, it’s all finished», he repeats and the same unsetting silence spreads again all around. (La STAMPA, October 25, 2012)

http://www.armenianow.com/sites/default/files/img/imagecache/600x400/St-gevorg-church-aleppo-syria-armenian.jpg ===== I know exactly where that church and school are. It is nicknamed the Church of the Marashtsis since it was built by them and the majority of the congregation are Marashtsis. ===== http://www.armenianow.com/news/40665/armenian_st_gevorg_church_aleppo News | 30.10.12 | 12:38 Armenian church reportedly burned down in Aleppo Photolure The St. Gevorg church in Aleppo’s Armenian-populated district of Nor Kyugh was set ablaze on Monday, reported Tert.am, quoting a representative of the local Armenian prelacy. Speaking to the online paper, the spokesman, Zhirayr Reisian, confirmed that the church had become a target of rebels and that it had almost been reduced to ashes. Reisian also said that the Mesrobian Armenian school adjacent to the church has been seriously damaged, too. Earlier on Monday a blast near an Armenian district of Syrian capital Damascus reportedly killed 10 people and wounded around 50. Armenians were feared to be among both dead and wounded. Later Reisian told state-run agency Armenpress that a group of 10 Christians, including seven Armenians, was kidnapped near Aleppo. About four dozen Syrian Armenians have reportedly been killed since the start of the conflict in Syria in March 2011. Hundreds of an estimated 80,000 Syrian Armenian, mostly concentrated in Aleppo, have taken refuge in Armenia since fighting between government and opposition forces reached the city last July. Source URL: http://www.armenianow.com/news/40665/armenian_st_gevorg_church_aleppo Copyright © 2002-2009 ArmeniaNow.com All rights reserved. http://www.armenianow.com/hy/news/40667/armenian_st_gevorg_church_aleppo

Here are those swipers snipers, The Apple Dumpling Gang; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXFRlgBfAlE

This is hilarious. I am surprised that the above writer is not in hiding with Salman Rushdi with a fatwa over his head.. That no turbaned mobs have burned flags, buildings and crosses yet. http://www.hyros.net/wp-content/uploads/kkk-300x225.jpg I had known that muslim men are allowed to have 4, 40, no 72 virgins as wives. What I did not know that muslim Saudi women drivers are allowed to have 4 male family members (husbands) as well. http://life.shangdu.com/data/attachment/portal/201208/13/141800qs1qgyvyq0kqys01.jpg

Davudiyen, ayo , Asel en indz, vor hntchagyanneri tagh e yeghel....hayastan nergaghtits hedo hayatapvel e.... === Ayo. Bayts inchu Holluk@ aydpes cher kochvel. Qani Levon Ter Petrosiani hayr@ bolshevik Hagob@ nakh qan 1946 ayntegh er bnakvoum?

Khortlakh gitem inch nshanage, bayts chgitem inchu ayd anunov gotchvadz e ==== Da aydpes er kochvel qani na gerezmanneri arevelian blouri lanjin er, yev ayntegh hasnelou hamar piti qayleyinq gerezmannerou mijov, mi koghm Fransakan isk mius koghm@ Orthodox kam katolik. Zatki hajord or@ Yerkoushapti, Merelots orin mer bolor azgakammer@ yev tsanot barekamner@ het gerezman aytselelou mer tan hiur k@llayin, qani mer tun@ irents janaparhin er. Menq mrelneren cheyinq vakhnar bayts yerbem@n voghj sparnaliqner k@llayin. PS. @st ardi qartesnerou, yerevi Sheikh Maksud@ aydqan @ndlaynouel e or minchev Ayn El Tel kam Muslumiyeh hasni. Ayo da kurdistan e dardzel. Nuynisk Nergahgti orerin hayots tuner@ gnoghner@ @ndhanrapes kurd eyin.

Vstah em du gites patjar@ === Hayer@ shat ankirth yev anpatkar zhoghovurd en. The inchu mer azganounnere@ aydqan tgegh ou arhamarhakan en. Mer das@nker khagh@nkrner@ mez shat arhmarhakan anounneov kocheyin. Ye yeraktapart em or mer azganoun@ khortlakhlioghluian chi dardzav.