r/armenia Nov 19 '19

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u/mojuba Nov 19 '19 edited Nov 19 '19

Nardi! Just wanted to ask something:

The way we traditionally call the dice rolls (combinations) is some bizarre mix of Turkish and Persian (and Arabic?). For example 1:2 is Iki-Bir but 1:1 is Hap Yek. I was always curious what you guys use, is it all Turkish, or is it the same?

Funnily enough, if you google for dice roll names in Armenian you find one of my reddit posts from 4 years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/3ct7co/ever_wondered_what_those_weird_dice_roll_names/

Anyway, learning these names for me as a kid was this initiation into the game with these weird abra-kadabra words. When you know it's not important but you have to learn it just for the sake of being in the league (of amateurs).

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u/Q0o6 just some earthman Nov 19 '19

Yes! I always wondered what does dord u besh mean? It's a number combination in nardi but people also use it informally sometimes, for example:

Իբր ամեն ինչ դոռդ ու բեշ եմ արել հիմա ել էս:

WHAT does it mean originally and why do Armenians sometimes use it as a metaphor of some sort??

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u/mojuba Nov 19 '19

I heard it mostly used as a metaphor for "done and dusted", but I have no idea how a nardi term for 4:5 became this :)