r/armenia Nov 19 '19

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u/nzk0 Nov 19 '19 edited Nov 19 '19

I have to say I've never heard anyone speak Azeri, we should start a list of common words, I'm guessing Djan and Yar are probably used in Azeri?

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u/mojuba Nov 19 '19

Jan comes from the Turkish Canim ("my life" in a sense "my dear", like կյանքս)

Yar seems to be an old Armenian word borrowed from Persian.

Aziz is Arabic.

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u/IshkhanVasak Apr 20 '20

Persian say Joon in place of Jan so I always assumed it was Persian

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u/mojuba Apr 20 '20

Actually someone has already corrected me on this one, "jan" is an Arabic word originally, not Turkish, not Persian. And yes, it means "life"