Armenian Slang & Idioms

[Հարութ]

Harut, nice to see you here

hi... փոխվել ես, բարեկամ...

[nairi]

How do you know it's not you who has changed?

I change all the time. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not..

[Siamanto]

Funny Armenian expressions involving "body parts."


1- "Atchk@ dzag eh" - greedy, unsatiable
2- "Kiten inger eh" - looks excatly like i.e. someone looks exactly like his/her father/mother!
3- "Agantch mi gakher" - don't pay attention.
4- "Atchk@s mdar" - something like "you just impressed me," "now, I have a good opinion of you!" Can anybody suggest a better translation? Thanks.
(Also "atchkes yelar," the opposite.)

To be continued.....

The disturbance caused by the presence of the *urks reminded of more "funny" Armenian expressions:
- Grnag@t g@ kervi: something like "are you asking to be punished?"
- Lezoun vosgor tchouni: something like "you can say anything you want, talk is cheap."

So let's not agantch gakhel to the *urks!

Bonus ones:
- Tserkin hink madner@ nouyn@ tchen: "even related individuals - i.e. siblings - are different."
- yeres@ dzour eh: something like "he/she is not in a happy/joyful mood???"
- lezoun prnver eh - something like "he/she is speechless or can't talk - more like don't want to talk!"



Note: I have chosen to auto censor the words "*urk" or "*urkish" because it is commonly perceived as unpleasant and offending, evokes unpleasant emotions and imagery and is pregnant with immoral and evil connotations!

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Would the five brothers count?

[Siamanto]

Would the five brothers count?

What did I do to deserve a slap?

[karoaper]

I don't know if these had been added yet:

Es over ara? Who the hell was that? What the hell?
Karogha gides te tsnundt a? You think you're hot xxxx.
Ai kezi ban? hard to translate, I can't believe this xxxx.
Ai tnashen. Friendly insult.
To tun@t shinvi? very hard to translate

I had a friend who loved saying:
Eh, im sev sirt@, ko vartaguin trusik@. means my black heart, your pink underwear. Trusik means underwear in russian. This expression was uttered when he was approached with something he didn't care about while he was busy with something else.

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Yerjanik Tghouryan...?

[karoaper]

Yerjanik Tghouryan...?

lol no, but I'm sure he got it from him.

[Harut82]

Would the five brothers count?

five brothers

Havn't heard that in a while

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Tars nstenk chishd ghosank.