Armenian Slang & Idioms

[nunechka]

hyebruin, that was SO! FUNNY! lol! lol!

hayde is definitely armenian, but of ishte is definitely turkish... i dont care though...

i use ishte, yalla, and mashallah all the time...

and che_ka i love how you described the ka... "kaaaaaa inch es asoum?"

and if you have read armenian before you should know that the word "ham" for comaring things and for tasting things is defnitely armenian! "ham ays ban eh kuzem, hamel ayn bane" and "ham tesnem" or "shat hammov eh"

here is my addition:
the word "ashem" for looking at things
the word "ba" for starting a question "ba, yes inch utem?" "ba, menk ur gnank?"
the phrase "ha ba" for making sure of your statement or someone elses "ha ba, yes urish ban chasetsi"
the phrase "inch ka cheka" directly it means "what is and isnt" which means "whats going on"

and people, if something is persian, you can be sure that it is as much armenian too! yaaaooww! babam...

yalla... haydeh i got work to do...

[nunechka]

so what about the fact that armenians insult each other by using food...
- tandz (pear),
- or "tandzi potch" (a pears tail)
- khiyar (cucumber)
- damboul (plum)
- dtum (pumpkin)
- dtumi glukh (pumpkin head)
- chamich (raisin)
- fstkh (pistashio) this one is a nice word

more misc words (you can PM me if you dont understand what they mean)
- dmbo
- boot
- dodosh
- vay vay vay
- flan fstan
- esheg (mule)
- hokis
- ghourban elnem
- yavrik
- balas
- ktsi or skupoy (means cheap)
- dishovi (means really super cheap)

- mernem boyit
- merenm kyankit
- jaaaaan (body)
- jana (body)
- jigyar (liver)
- aziz jan (not sure what exactly it means, but its a good term)
- aziztseles (you are being lovey dovey)
- apres (you may live) how can we say that for something we are praising, what are we saying, "ohh that was good, you may live?" it sure seems like it

and what about how we will make any work into a tiny meaning, with putting an "ik" at the end.
- janik
- anoushik
- dtmik

or we will make any word to mean many things or other things, its kind of like improvising, by way of a language, such as:
- sovats movats (sovats means hungry)
- tsarav marav (tsarav means thirsty)
- tgha mgha (tgha means boy)
- latsel matsel (latsel means to cry)
- stits mtits (stits means fake)


i will come up with more later...

[Che_Ka]

Nunechka: The war begins. lol

I think "hayde" is not Armenian. I don't know what language it's from, but I still don't think it's Armenian. Turkish? Greek? My dad doesn't use it, so I don't think it's Arabic. (He grew up speaking only Arabic.)

Yalla is Arabic for "ya allah" (oh god). Mashalla is, I believe, Turkish, for something similar.

Ham is NOT Armenian, although it has been incorporated into BOTH dialects because of Western Armenians emigrating to Eastern Armenia. Ham is either Turkish or Arabic. The reason I'm adamant on this is because my family pronounces the "a" sound like you would pronounce "apple" -- and this sound is of course nonexistent in Armenian. I have a feeling Eastern Armenians have Armenianized its pronunciation. The word has no connection to the Armenian word "ham" (taste). We pronounce the 2 words differently.

And just for the record, khiar is Arabic. Boy is Turkish for tall/hasagavor. Ghourban is Turkish as well. I'm not sure what damboul is, but we use "salor" for plum.

[nunechka]

mashalla means god bless and yes it is turkish...

i thought of something else... i was driving and i was in a hurry (as usual, and i yelled out YALLA LAN!, and then again, i was tempted to yell and so this time it said "Yalla be"
so there are two words "lan" and "be"

i dont care where they are from...

che jaaaan! how you pronounce something doesnt matter when we are comparing letters that Mesrop Mashtots wrote... the A is an A in the words can, apple, audit, etc... that sound is not nonexistant... its an accent and if you've ever visited a villiage in armenia you know that from a 30 min drive the accent changes dramically and the same words are pronounces with not only different A sounds but, E, Y, I, U, O etc...

its the same thing... you seem to be in the mind set that everything must be spelled out... you are correct about the meanings... ghourban means matagh... and i just thought of another word we use, "maymoun" which is turkish, meaning monkey...

i know khiyan is turkish but the armenian version "varoung" isnt as insulting...

what about tsogol... this is the sour (ungrown) version of a tsiran... (i think) that is also use to insult people... you see this obsession with food, or mostly produce to insult people...

i have my first grade armenian book in front of me, and there it is the word on page 38 "HAM, HAV, HOUM, HIN, HATIK, HATOUK, HATAK, HAMEST, PAHEST, etc... the first word was HAM! lol! ohhh ya, ham is not an armenian word... the book is called "AYBBENARAN"

thank you, thank you!

[Baron Dants]

"Ham" also means taste. That could very well be the "ham" your book was referring to.

[nunechka]

yes i know that... hamn neshanakum e hamegh utelik hamel neshanakum e ays bane yev ayn bane...
- according to the armenain-english dictionary
the word "ham" means tast
the word "ham" second meaning is "both and"
the word "hamagortsel" means to collaborate...
the word "hamajoghov" means conference
the word "hamakerpel" means comply with
the word "hamachap" means symetrical

the word ham in all of these provides the comparable meaning, that people comply, there is comparison in the meaning of symetrical, etc... someone please help out here... its like no one has read armenian in this forum...

HAM is ARMENIAN

[sad_eyes]

HAM OV

[Siamanto]

so what about the fact that armenians insult each other by using food...
- tandz (pear),
- or "tandzi potch" (a pears tail)
- khiyar (cucumber)
- damboul (plum)
- dtum (pumpkin)
- dtumi glukh (pumpkin head)
- chamich (raisin)
- fstkh (pistashio) this one is a nice word

more misc words (you can PM me if you dont understand what they mean)
- dmbo
- boot
- dodosh
- vay vay vay
- flan fstan
- esheg (mule)
- hokis
- ghourban elnem
- yavrik
- balas
- ktsi or skupoy (means cheap)
- dishovi (means really super cheap)

- mernem boyit
- merenm kyankit
- jaaaaan (body)
- jana (body)
- jigyar (liver)
- aziz jan (not sure what exactly it means, but its a good term)
- aziztseles (you are being lovey dovey)
- apres (you may live) how can we say that for something we are praising, what are we saying, "ohh that was good, you may live?" it sure seems like it

and what about how we will make any work into a tiny meaning, with putting an "ik" at the end.
- janik
- anoushik
- dtmik

or we will make any word to mean many things or other things, its kind of like improvising, by way of a language, such as:
- sovats movats (sovats means hungry)
- tsarav marav (tsarav means thirsty)
- tgha mgha (tgha means boy)
- latsel matsel (latsel means to cry)
- stits mtits (stits means fake)


i will come up with more later...

- flan fstan: I've heard "flan fstkhan."
- esh is "arse," not "mule."
- both skupoy and dishovi sound Russian??? They don't sound Armenian!!!

yes i know that... hamn neshanakum e hamegh utelik hamel neshanakum e ays bane yev ayn bane...
- according to the armenain-english dictionary
the word "ham" means tast
the word "ham" second meaning is "both and"
the word "hamagortsel" means to collaborate...
the word "hamajoghov" means conference
the word "hamakerpel" means comply with
the word "hamachap" means symetrical

the word ham in all of these provides the comparable meaning, that people comply, there is comparison in the meaning of symetrical, etc... someone please help out here... its like no one has read armenian in this forum...

HAM is ARMENIAN

"Ham" meaning taste is Armenian.
"Ham/Hem" meaning both is probably non-Armenian.
The prefix "hama" is the equivalent of the Latin "co/con"

Three different "words!"

[Anonymouse]

the classic, "Ara!".

-hluh estegh ari, Ara, kam bernit ktam!

or "Jogum es ape?" or "Ape, karogha chusogh es?"

[Siamanto]

Nairi: Interesting that your American cousins use "ganchel" (kanchel) instead of "zankel" (zangel). No doubt something else they picked up from the Arevmdahays at school.

The two words are similar to the difference between the British and American versions.

I thought that "to telephone" is "heratsaynel" in Western Armenian, not "gantchel"!!!