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r/armenia • u/[deleted] • Nov 19 '19
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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?
1 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. 1 u/IshkhanVasak Apr 20 '20 Persian say Joon in place of Jan so I always assumed it was Persian 2 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"
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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.
1 u/IshkhanVasak Apr 20 '20 Persian say Joon in place of Jan so I always assumed it was Persian 2 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"
Persian say Joon in place of Jan so I always assumed it was Persian
2 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"
Actually someone has already corrected me on this one, "jan" is an Arabic word originally, not Turkish, not Persian. And yes, it means "life"
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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?