Armenian

See also: armenian

English

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Etymology

From Armenia +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑːˈmiːni.ən/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɑɹˈmini.ən/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːniən

Adjective

Armenian (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, the Armenian people, the Armenian language, or the Armenian alphabet.
    Synonym: Armenic
    • 2005, Donald Bloxham, The Great Game of Genocide‎[1], New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 10 April 2023, page 44:
      Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness.

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Noun

Armenian (plural Armenians)

  2. A person from Armenia or of Armenian descent.
    • 2005, Donald Bloxham, The Great Game of Genocide‎[2], New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 10 April 2023, page 44:
      The Armenians were led in turn, however, by a politicized vanguard often living cosmopolitan, urban lives remote from rural eastern Anatolia

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Proper noun

Armenian

  2. (uncountable) The language of Armenia and the Armenian people, whose older stages are Old Armenian and Middle Armenian.
  3. (uncountable) A branch of Indo-European languages, which includes the various stages of the Armenian language.

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Finnish

Proper noun

Armenian

  1. genitive singular of Armenia

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