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ԵՓՐԱՏ եւ ՏԻԳՐԻՍ

Euphrates and Tigris

The two rivers of Armenia, between which the land was called “meso-potamia” ՄԻՋ- ա-ԳԵՏՔ Between (two) rivers.

Please note the Armenian ՄԻՋԱԳԵՏՔand the Assyro-Latin Mesopotamia (Iraq of today).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates.

How come we don’t have people named Yepran, but we have Tigran? Except for Yepros and Yepraxi, Ephronia all female. Is it like Araksi/Araxi? :clown: Not to forget the male name Yeprem/Եփրեմ//Ephrem!Some may want you to believe that "Yeprem" is from the hebrew "ephra-im" plural of "ephra-i" Look again and see if it is not from "euphra(tes)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeprem_Khan

Etymology

Modern names for the Euphrates may have been derived by popular etymology from the Sumerian and Akkadian names, respectively Buranun and Pu-rat-tu. The former appears in an inscription from the 22nd century BC[citation needed] associated with King Gudea.

Etymologically, the name "Euphrates" is the Greek form of the original name, Phrat, which means "fertilizing" or "fruitful".[3]

Alternatively, the second half of the word Euphrates may also derive from either the Persian Ferat or the Greek φέρω (pronounced [fero]), both of which mean "to carry" or "to bring forward".

Avestan hu-pərəθwa 'good to cross over' has been proposed as the etymology of Euphrates. It derives from PIE *su- 'good' (a cognate of Sanskrit su-, Greek eu-) + *per- 'to pass over' (a cognate of English ferry and ford).[4]

Language Name for Euphrates

Akkadian Pu-rat-tu

Arabic الفرات Al-Furāt

Aramaic ܦܪܬ Prāṯ, Froṯ

Armenian Եփրատ Yeṗrat

Greek Ευφράτης Euphrátēs

Hebrew פְּרָת Pĕrāṯ

Kurdish فره ات Firat, Ferat

Persian فرات Forat

Sumerian Buranun

Turkish Fırat

 

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Tigris ՏԻԳՐԻՍ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris

Etymology

The original Sumerian name was Idigna or Idigina, probably from *id (i)gina "running water",[4] which can be interpreted as "the swift river", contrasted to its neighbor, the Euphrates, whose leisurely pace caused it to deposit more silt and build up a higher bed than the Tigris. This form was borrowed and gave rise to Akkadian Idiqlat. From Old Persian Tigrā, the word was adopted into Greek as Tigris ("Τίγρις" which is also Greek for "tiger"). In the Hebrew Bible, the river was called Ḥiddẹqel[5] (חִדֶּקֶל).

Pahlavi tigr means "arrow", in the same family as Old Persian tigra- "pointed" (compare tigra-xauda), Modern Persian têz "sharp". However, it does not appear that this was the original name of the river, but that it (like the Semitic forms of the name) was coined as an imitation of the indigenous Sumerian name. This is similar to the Persian name of the Euphrates, Ufratu, which does have a meaning in Persian, but is still modeled after the Akkadian name Purattu.

Another name for the Tigris, used from the time of the Persian Empire, is Arvand Rud, literally Arvand River. Today the name Arvand Rud is the Persian name for the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers which in Arabic is called Shatt al-Arab.

The name of the Tigris in languages that have been important to the region:

Tigris River Outside of Mosul, Iraq.

Language Name for Tigris

Akkadian Idiqlat

Arabic دجلة, Dijla

Aramaic דיגלת , Diglath

Armenian Տիգրիս, Tigris

Greek ἡ Τίγρης, -ητος, hē Tígrēs, -ētos;

ἡ, ὁ Τίγρις, -ιδος, hē, ho Tígris, -idos

Hebrew חידקל , Ḥîddeqel

Hurrian Aranzah[6]

Kurdish Dîcle

Persian Old Persian:Tigrā; Middle Persian:Tigr; Modern Persian:دجله Dijle

Sumerian Idigna/Idigina 

Syriac ܕܩܠܬ Deqlaṯ

Turkish Dicle

 

 

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