Weird names

[Arpa]

Պողոս

Paolo, you already know that Poghos, Paulos means small from the Greek. Hence the word polos/պոլոզ in the Marash dialect that means (small) child and the "poulos" ending of Greek family names to mean the "child of..."

:)

[Boghos]

There is or was a professor at Harvard studying the Marash dialect...no Nobel Prize for that Edited October 10, 2006 by Boghos

[karapet]

կարապետ...

 

 

inchov chhavanezik im anuns Harut?

 

 

iskapes cheyi zankanum vochmekin viravorel ays forumum,

[Harut]

inchov chhavanezik im anuns Harut?

iskapes cheyi zankanum vochmekin viravorel ays forumum,

 

հարգելի պր. կարապետ ջան, ո՞վ ասաց, որ ձեր անունը չեմ հավանում... շատ եմ հավանում... պարզապես՝ շատ weird անուն է...

[Harut]

heros kajberouni... nice name-last name combination...

[kakachik77]

How about the name ARAM?

 

Is it Arameic, how come only Armenians use it today?

[RickJames]

First off, dear Khazar, welcome.

 

"-iants/-yants" ending.

 

Yes. It is true. In the old days it has been indicative of nobility or that an ancestor has been a priest. But on the other hand, in the old days, any Armenian who has had a last name was pretty much nobility or from priests.

 

My last name ends with a yants

[gamavor]

My last name ends with a yants

 

It is purely Moscow Armenian thing. In some cases it might pertain to nobility but mostly it was used by Moscow Armenians starting somewhere at the end of 19th century.

[RickJames]

It is purely Moscow Armenian thing. In some cases it might pertain to nobility but mostly it was used by Moscow Armenians starting somewhere at the end of 19th century.

Im from Tashkent, lol. From my mother's side my family is from Karabakh, from my father's side they are from Sissian, and Meghri. My grandmother (mothers side) told me that my last name means that i had relatives who were high in ranking, so i looked online and found this.

[Harut]

[Arpa]

Let's continue the fun.

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Hadn't heard of Azatuhi before until reading about LTP's mother...

As a rule in the Diaspora boys are not named Azat. All Azat-s that I have known are girls, a contraction from Azat-uhi. So far as their mothers would call them “azat-uu/Ազատիւ- իւ” .

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(I wish they would place the list on the internet, it is too long for me to type.)

I do receive a yearbook from the Prelacy where at the end there is a section ՀԱՅԿԱԿԱՆ ԱՆՈՒՆՆԵՐ, which btw I don’t like simply because their transliteration is disgusting, obviously the editors are idiots when they have Աբգար=Apkar and so on. Oh yes, surprise, surprise in the male section they do list Ազատ/Azad. Yet in the female section the first listing is…. You guessed it… Ազատուհի/Azadoohi.

Need I say more? May be I do. In time we will come to the most unusual of them.

Edited June 30, 2010 by Arpa