Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

[Էլիա]

Re: Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

^I agree, we can't just change it because everyone is already used to it!

[Thai-Samurai]

Re: Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

we could slowly change it, such as in elementary school, refer to it as hayastan half the time and they hayq the other half. Then a few generations later they will only refer to it as hayq. And eventually everyone will think it is Hayq.

[Էլիա]

Re: Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

^I don't know, Hayq sounds weird for a country name...

[Esther]

Re: Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

Hey^^

I just wondered why we should change that name.I my opinion there isn't a reason for doing that...

Actually I don't really know why we Armenians always try to act like we have nothing in common with the oriental world, although you can already tell by the way our folklore music sounds, that we we were indeed influenced by them. I'm sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but I mean, we, as " left-overs of oriental christianity" shouldn't try to deny that we were influenced by them. I really think it's something we should be proud of, because after all we and our religion still exist after all those years we were fighting with the muslims.

[Էլիա]

Re: Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

^I'm not sure what you're talking about by oriental influence... but a reason some Armenians might deny it (if it's true) is because of the stereotype of Armenians being oriental...

[icoN]

Re: Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

I think it occured a little something like this, yes Armenia was called Hayastan, yet it was named after the strongest tribe in Hayastan at the time The Armens, but I've also read about the Ar standing for Aryan and the men standing simply for men, Armenia.

[Կարմիր Բ]

Re: Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

Interesting. I've also heard that Nazis have a disturbed cognitive function.

[Էլիա]

Re: Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

^OK... that was random!

[Iranianazeri]

Re: Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

The suffix "-ostan" comes from the iranian languages, it means province. So Hayastan is the old province of the armenians, in Iran - which means the land of the Aryans. Originally it's not turkic, islamic or something like that ...

[Mos]

Re: Why is Armenia called Hayastan?

Hay-Armenian
Kurd

Hayastan-Armenian
Kurdistan-

looks like its the ethnic group plus a "stan" prefix