Armenian Family names

[dsarkasian]

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I have some cousins that live in the Midwest USA. Their surname is Jouharian and they don't know where it came from or it's meaning. Anybody got a clue?

[ARK]

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isnt minas also an armo name?

i've read this in an article on the names which r thought to be armenian but r not.we(armenians ) consider every name and everybody armenian!
as my grand dad used to tell me(and still tells me) the root of every word and every person is armenian!(that reminds of that movie, my big fat greek wedding! give me a word and i'll show u the root of that word is greek! we r quite similar!)

[Ari]

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isnt minas also an armo name?

[ARK]

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To those whose family name is Minassian as my mom's, minas is a greek word!

[Crissy]

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Damn my name was persian??I had no idea yea and forgot to ask my dad last night, didn't get home till late.

Thanks Ark

[karoaper]

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The word pour is Persian and in some Persian family names u can find it at the beginning or at the end of it( sth+pour or pour+sth) and it is pronounced “r” kosht like the Italian r.

ha, interesting, thanks

[ARK]

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what the?? didn't get the last bit of your post!

not sure where pour comes from I'll ask again tonight at home, one of my dad's sisters is still using Pur-Hartun. beats the long way we spell it I suppose.

The word pour is Persian and in some Persian family names u can find it at the beginning or at the end of it( sth+pour or pour+sth) and it is pronounced “r” kosht like the Italian r.

[Crissy]

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what the?? didn't get the last bit of your post!

not sure where pour comes from I'll ask again tonight at home, one of my dad's sisters is still using Pur-Hartun. beats the long way we spell it I suppose.

[karoaper]

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wel I am HaroutiounIAN, but when my grandfather was born, our surname was Pour-Harutun or Pur-Harutun not sure how they spelled it, somewhere along the line before my grandfather got married had kids he changed our last name to Haroutiounian.

my cousins surname is Arzumani they were born in Kuwait.

I wonder if Pour was an influence from another language, never seen that before. Kosht r-e er de papuk?

[karoaper]

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I'm Khelagarian, not my original last name, I had it changed to better suit my personallity.