Help with writing an Armenian name in Armenian

[Nishan]

Re: Help with writing an Armenian name in Armenian

Kazarian

Last name origin & meaning:

Armenian: patronymic from the personal name Kazar, variant of Ghazar, itself a variant of Łazar (see Lazar). It is possible, but less likely, that the name is an ethnic name for a Kazar, a member of a people living in the southern Caucasus in the Middle Ages.

Thank you KanadaHye, it seems to support the notion that Kazarian is not a distortion of some other name. When I google Kazarian, there are 164,000 pages that reference it. I cannot imagine that everyone's name is wrong. Perhaps in ancient times, the name was Ghazar, but at some point by the 1800's at least, it became Kazarian. I highly doubt that it was a distortion induced by the immigration, and thus, must have been Kazarian for at least a couple of hundred years.

So that begs the question, how would one spell it in Armenian? It seems rather odd to me that on the HyeClub forum, there wouldn't be more who would have heard of it. It's really a pretty common name.

Any thoughts?

[KanadaHye]

Re: Help with writing an Armenian name in Armenian

Khazarian (Խազարյան/Խազարեան) as a last name does not exist.

No, I meant that Frankie Kazarian also goes by the name Frankie Gerdelman... google the khazarian empire.

There is pages and pages of this stuff...
http://www.rense.com/general83/khaz.htm

Honorable mention concerning the Armenian Genocide in that text.


Kazarian

Last name origin & meaning:

Armenian: patronymic from the personal name Kazar, variant of Ghazar, itself a variant of Łazar (see Lazar). It is possible, but less likely, that the name is an ethnic name for a Kazar, a member of a people living in the southern Caucasus in the Middle Ages.

[Federate]

Re: Help with writing an Armenian name in Armenian

I didn't want to mention the possibility that it might have originated from khazar for obvious reasons.

Khazarian (Խազարյան/Խազարեան) as a last name does not exist.

[KanadaHye]

Re: Help with writing an Armenian name in Armenian

"Son of" part is correct. Never heard of the name Kazar, much less within an Armenian family. Ghazar is a relatively common name though, especially in old times.

I didn't want to mention the possibility that it might have originated from khazar for obvious reasons.

[Federate]

Re: Help with writing an Armenian name in Armenian

I see. I was under the impression that it was a derivation of the first name "Kazar" and the ian meaning "son" or "son of".

Am I mistaken?

"Son of" part is correct. Never heard of the name Kazar, much less within an Armenian family. Ghazar is a relatively common name though, especially in old times.

[Nishan]

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Any relation to Frankie Kazarian frow WWE?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joh-IE_GQR8

No (smile). As I say, Kazarian is a common name.

[Nishan]

Re: Help with writing an Armenian name in Armenian

Well Kazarian by itself has no meaning it seems (as far as I know) so if you want to be accurate with your last name, go with Ghazarian (Ղազարեան). Kazarian would certainly help odars in pronouncing your last name and not get dumbfounded when they see an 'H' after a 'G' and go

If you're wondering, Ghazar is a name which is the Armenian equivalent of Lazarus.

I see. I was under the impression that it was a derivation of the first name "Kazar" and the ian meaning "son" or "son of".

Am I mistaken?

[KanadaHye]

Re: Help with writing an Armenian name in Armenian

Any relation to Frankie Kazarian frow WWE?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joh-IE_GQR8

[Federate]

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I don't get the joke (sorry). But does this mean that there's some level of consensus that it should be Gha instead of K?

Any commentary on the distortion issue, since there are many Kazarian's in the US? I'm curious as to whether you folks are thinking that they're all distorted.

Thanks for your continued assistance.

Well Kazarian by itself has no meaning it seems (as far as I know) so if you want to be accurate with your last name, go with Ghazarian (Ղազարեան). Kazarian would certainly help odars in pronouncing your last name and not get dumbfounded when they see an 'H' after a 'G' and go

If you're wondering, Ghazar is a name which is the Armenian equivalent of Lazarus.

[Haykakan]

Re: Help with writing an Armenian name in Armenian

I don't get the joke (sorry). But does this mean that there's some level of consensus that it should be Gha instead of K?

Any commentary on the distortion issue, since there are many Kazarian's in the US? I'm curious as to whether you folks are thinking that they're all distorted.

Thanks for your continued assistance.

The funny part was that the name basicly means carrots. There are lots of armenian last names that mean real words thus are not just names or atleast the first part of it anyways. I met some nice people a while ago and the last name was droshakakirian, it means flag carrier literaly.O Of course there are the infamous pligian and putsigians names to(i am not kiding). The list goes on and gets pretty funny at times. We could probably start a new thread on funny armenian sirnames.