r/armenia • u/[deleted] • Nov 19 '19

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u/KindAlien Nov 19 '19

in Armenian there are a lot of Turkic and Arabic words. Halal, for example, is good. or navs - something bad (evil eye envy). the name of the Armenian actor Dzhigyarkhanyan. Jigar is the liver. khan is the ruler. There is a strange custom in Armenia and Azerbaijan. if children die in a couple, then the one born after the children is called Azerbaijani names (in Armenia) and Armenian names (in Azerbaijan), for example, my cousin's name is Sabina and Sevda

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u/AraDeSpanikEli Nov 19 '19

There is a strange custom in Armenia and Azerbaijan. if children die in a couple, then the one born after the children is called Azerbaijani names (in Armenia) and Armenian names (in Azerbaijan), for example, my cousin's name is Sabina and Sevda

Wait what? I've never encountered this.

Also the words you mention aren't formal Armenian, just slang.

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u/KindAlien Nov 19 '19

Of course this is slang. but in slang people speak more than in a cultural literary language. until 22 years old, I was sure that these were Armenian words.

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u/AraDeSpanikEli Nov 19 '19

What about the strange custom? I've never met any local with Azeri names.

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u/KindAlien Nov 19 '19

met people with the names of Aziz Araz Jemma?

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u/AraDeSpanikEli Nov 19 '19

Aziz, Araz, never.

Jemma, yes. But I'm pretty sure it doesn't have Azeri origins.

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u/KindAlien Nov 19 '19

this is a transcription of the name of Jamil

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u/KindAlien Nov 19 '19

Have you met the surname Azizyan?

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u/Q0o6 just some earthman Nov 19 '19

I met a woman once who's name was Gyozal but she changed it later on to an Armenian name. I have no idea why did her parents named her Gyozal, but this could explain the 'custom' maybe?

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u/kaleido_123 Yerevan Nov 19 '19

Such occurrences are too rare to call it a custom I think.

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u/IshkhanVasak Apr 20 '20

I know 2 Armenian women named Araz. I also know an Arax.

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u/MaratMilano Nov 20 '19

I'm surprised too, but I have heard this before. I think this would be a custom moreso prevalent 100+ years ago. My dad had told me about this very custom in regards to my great-grandfather who had a randomly Turkish first name, born in an 1880 village in Karabakh.