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Arpa, how am I supposed to clean up my Armenian. I mix a whole lot of Turkish-French-Arabic in, I say Mercy instead Shnorogalam,I they Kravat instead of Poghgob,but I think if I put the effort I can somewhat clean it up a bit.

 

But there is another problem, I don't know the Armenian word for many things, like Shalymon for straw, or Mayo for bathing suit, how about the word for electricity, Karraba. Not even my parents know some of the words. And my Grandma is the worst she mixes in so much sometimes she even confuses me.

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Arpa, how am I supposed to clean up my Armenian. I mix a whole lot of Turkish-French-Arabic in, I say Mercy instead Shnorogalam,I they Kravat instead of Poghgob,but I think if I put the effort I can somewhat clean it up a bit.

It does take some effort. We, from Soviet Armenia were used to using Russian words in our daily lives, such as "xolodelnik" for "sarnaran" (refrigerator), or "marozhni" for "paghpaghak" (ice cream). But we don't use those words anymore, and neither do the Armenians around us.

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It does take some effort. We, from Soviet Armenia were used to using Russian words in our daily lives, such as "xolodelnik" for "sarnaran" (refrigerator), or "marozhni" for "paghpaghak" (ice cream). But we don't use those words anymore, and neither do the Armenians around us.

I was there just over a year ago and they were still using marozhni. ;)

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Arpa, how am I supposed to clean up my Armenian. I mix a whole lot of Turkish-French-Arabic in, I say Mercy instead Shnorogalam,I they Kravat instead of Poghgob,but I think if I put the effort I can somewhat clean it up a bit.

 

But there is another problem, I don't know the Armenian word for many things, like Shalymon for straw, or Mayo for bathing suit, how about the word for electricity, Karraba. Not even my parents know some of the words. And my Grandma is the worst she mixes in so much sometimes she even confuses me.

No, THANK YOU . I don't use it either. I will use any other, be it mercy, thank you, danke, grazia and even shukran just to avoid using "shnorhakakakapupupukakkal em", simply because I have no idea what it really means.

It is funny that you say you use “karraba”, in fact it is “kahraba” to mean electricity. What you may not know is that that word is based on “kahrabar”, the resinous exudation which is known as “elektron” in the Greek, amber in English and Sat/ՍԱԹ in the Armenian. Why is it called “sath” in Armenian? It is common with the Persian word “sataph” to mean “nacre/mother of pearl“

http://www.clunygreyjewelry.com/mother-of-pearl-jewelry.html

Afrikaans - barnsteen; Albanian - qehribá ; Arabic - kahramaan ( ) & 'anbar ( ) ; Armenian - ?sat' ( [ + h'ambar?]; Azeri(Azerbaijani)- or kæhræba; Basque - anbar; Belarus(i)an - ~ burshtin ( ); Bengali - ??? ( ); Bosnian - see Serbo-Croat; Breton - goularz; Bulgarian - kehlibar ( ); Burmese - payin ( ); Cambodian - ??? ( ); Catalan - see French & Spanish; Chinese - hŭpò; ( ); Croatian - see Serbo-Croat; Czech - jantar; Danish - rav; Dutch - barnsteen [ + amber] ; English - amber & ambre; also, the Oxford English Dictionary (1971) has three …

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Just an informative note here: Kahraba is the Arabic word (spoken version) for electricity and its proper form in written Arabic is kahruba' كهرُباء

Yes Sassun, thank you.

Did you notice that above the Arabic word is entered as "kahramaan/anbar" . Is that correct? We know what "kahraman" means as in Cairo/al Qahireh and Kahraman-Marash.

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Yes Sassun, thank you.

Did you notice that above the Arabic word is entered as "kahramaan/anbar" . Is that correct? We know what "kahraman" means as in Cairo/al Qahireh and Kahraman-Marash.

Arpa

Kahraman is not an Arabic word but used sometimes in Arabic...

But yeah, it means amber...

 

Anbar means depot...

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Btw Arpa, speaking of Marash!

Does this look familiar ?

 

The STOLEN version: :angry:

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The ORIGINAL version:

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:angry:

 

WHAT have the turks produced of themselves, that they can call their own invention? Aside from genocidal leaders/people ? :angry:

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Arpa

Kahraman is not an Arabic word but used sometimes in Arabic...

But yeah, it means amber...

 

Anbar means depot...

Isn't Kahraman "hero" in Turkish?

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Btw Arpa, speaking of Marash!

marash.jpg

 

genocide_memorial.jpg

Okay, they steal our land, our riches, our women, our children, our lives, our music, our musical instruments etc and now they steal the design of our monuments? Kakuh hanetsin aylevs.

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