Tattoo in armenian

[Emily]

Hi everyone!

First I'd to already apologize for my bad English because I'm french and not really bilingual.
Here's the thing, I would like a small sentence tattoed on my arm and I wanted it to be written in a way that not everybody would understand it. I met a friend who's armenian and he showed me the alphabet and I just fell in love with it
So the decision was easy I'm gonna do it in armenian !

It is not really easy to find a translator even more when I don't speak or read armenian at all, and I would like to have a second opinion though, to be sure that what will be inked on my skin has the right meaning at least and that's why I need your help please!
So the sentence is " Be your own hero " and he wrote me " Եխիր քո սեփական հերոսը " (without being really sure)
Is it OK ?

And last thing is that I looking for websites or whatever that could help me about the written form, like fonts or someone who could write it with his hand for me because I can't find anything by my own..


Thank you all for you help


Emi

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Tattoo in armenian

And are you going to find a tattoist who can write Armenian? Or risk a disaster like that American singer who got it into her head to have a tattoo in Hebrew on her neck, and made a laughing stock of herself because it was spelt wrong!

[Emily]

Re: Tattoo in armenian

I don't expect my tattoist to be able to write or understand Armenian, I only ask her to tattoo properly the text I will give to her And I hope that someone who's Armenian agrees with my friend's translation to avoid that kind of trouble

[Mos]

Re: Tattoo in armenian

Hi everyone!

First I'd to already apologize for my bad English because I'm french and not really bilingual.
Here's the thing, I would like a small sentence tattoed on my arm and I wanted it to be written in a way that not everybody would understand it. I met a friend who's armenian and he showed me the alphabet and I just fell in love with it
So the decision was easy I'm gonna do it in armenian !

It is not really easy to find a translator even more when I don't speak or read armenian at all, and I would like to have a second opinion though, to be sure that what will be inked on my skin has the right meaning at least and that's why I need your help please!
So the sentence is " Be your own hero " and he wrote me " Եխիր քո սեփական հերոսը " (without being really sure)
Is it OK ?

And last thing is that I looking for websites or whatever that could help me about the written form, like fonts or someone who could write it with his hand for me because I can't find anything by my own..


Thank you all for you help


Emi

First off, it should be Եղիր not Եխիր

Second, you could also use անձնական instead of սեփական - in my view it sounds better because անձնական has more of a connotation to one's self, though that's just my opinion.

Third, the font often used for Armenian is Sylfaen font.

bonne chance!

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Tattoo in armenian

First off, it should be Եղիր not Եխիր

Second, you could also use անձնական instead of սեփական - in my view it sounds better because անձնական has more of a connotation to one's self, though that's just my opinion.

Third, the font often used for Armenian is Sylfaen font.

bonne chance!

Since it is a sort of inscription, maybe it shhould be in an Erkatagir script?

[ArmSurvival]

Re: Tattoo in armenian

I agree with Mos, the sentence should read "Եղիր քո անձնական հերոսը"

[Emily]

Re: Tattoo in armenian

Wow I didn't think that I would get as many answers Thank you for your advice and corrections !
But I have an other question which's coming out now ; Mos you said that անձնական sounds better as սեփական .. can you try to explain me the nuance please ? Actually the way I understand the sentence is that people should be their own heroes, trust their own abilities/powers instead of counting on other imaginary people. And also that we should fight for the title which attribued to us, count on ourselves, being independant...
Aoutch really tough to clear it in English and it probably sounds ridiculous but I tried

[Yedtarts]

Re: Tattoo in armenian

you don't really need to use անձնական, you can just go like this: Դուն եղիր քո հերոսը, or: Դուն քո հերոսը եղիր.

անձնական: means personal but it used more for things very personal with your identity,or things that you use in person such: name, picture, car or even house

սեփական: also means personal but used more for material things that you own but not necessarily you use, such: land, house, car or anything you own but not necessarily you use for your personal needs.

[Mos]

Re: Tattoo in armenian

you don't really need to use անձնական, you can just go like this: Դուն եղիր քո հերոսը, or: Դուն քո հերոսը եղիր.

անձնական: means personal but it used more for things very personal with your identity,or things that you use in person such: name, picture, car or even house

սեփական: also means personal but used more for material things that you own but not necessarily you use, such: land, house, car or anything you own but not necessarily you use for your personal needs.

Well that's saying it in Western Armenian, I think the OP wants it in Eastern, plus in Eastern Armenian it sounds better with "անձնական" as it gives the self more emphasis. Though the nuance can be debated

[Siggie]

Re: Tattoo in armenian

Hang on here...

You have no attachment to anything Armenian, can't read and write the language, and are simply using it as an obscure enough language/alphabet that not many will understand your tattoo?

You may as well make up an alphabet of your own or write gibberish on your arm. If you can't read it and don't want anyone else to, what is the point? What's the point? My apologies, but this seems to be as terrible an idea as people who get chinese, japanese, etc tattoos and aren't of that ethnicity and don't speak/read the language.
Someone may as well write out "yes hayeren chem hasganum" (no armo font at work) for her...