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The name Armenia entered English via Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἀρμενία. The Armenian endonym for the Armenian people and country is hay (pl. hayer) and Hayastan, respectively. The exact etymologies of the names of Armenia are unknown, and there are various speculative attempts to connect them to older toponyms or ethnonyms.
Example: Petrosyan, meaning "issued from Petros", akin to the English name Peterson as "son of Peter". Some Armenian last names bear the suffix -նց ([nʦʰ]), which is a plural genitive suffix, transliterated as -nc, -nts or -ntz (as in Bakunts or Adontz), or in addition to -yan/-ian (as in Parajaniants). This is not common, although it used ...
Nairi (Akkadian: 𒆳𒆳𒈾𒄿𒊑, romanized: mātāt Na-i-ri, lit. 'Nairi lands', also Na-'i-ru; Armenian: Նաիրի) [1] was the Akkadian name for a region inhabited by a particular group (possibly a confederation or league) of tribal principalities in the Armenian Highlands, approximately spanning the area between modern Diyarbakır and Lake Van and the region west of Lake Urmia.
The names Armenia and Armenian are exonyms, first attested in the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great. The early Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi derived the name Armenia from Aramaneak, the eldest son of the legendary Hayk. [2] Various theories exist about the origin of the endonym and exonyms of Armenia and Armenians (see Name of ...
The name Orontes is the Hellenized form of a masculine name of Iranian origin; Երուանդ Eruand in Old Armenian. [citation needed] The name is only attested in Greek (Gr.:Ὀρόντης). Its Avestan connection is Auruuant (brave, hero) and Middle Persian Arwand (Modern Persian اروند Arvand).
One of Hayk's most famous scions, Aram (whose name Moses purports to be the origin of the name Armenia [15]), settled in Eastern Armenia from the Mitanni kingdom (Western Armenia), when Sargon II mentions a king of part of Armenia who bore the (Armenian-Indo-Iranian) name Bagatadi (which, like the Greek-based "Theodore" and the Hebrew-based ...
The name Ararat was translated as Armenia in the 1st century AD in historiographical works [35] and very early Latin translations of the Bible, [36] as well as the Books of Kings [37] and Isaiah in the Septuagint. Some English language translations, including the King James Version, [38] follow the Septuagint translation of Ararat as Armenia. [39]
Stamps issued by Armenia, portraying ancient artifacts left by Lchashen-Metsamor culture (Etiuni), found near Lake Sevan. Igor Diakonov wrote that Etiuni was a Urartian name meaning "land/people of Etio", [4] whereas Mirjo Salvini preferred to read it as "Etiu".