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  • Re: The meaning of your first name?

    Originally posted by Alevigirl88 View Post
    It's also the name of an Alevi worship place/house
    Cem is also the name of that pray. What is your name and what does your name mean?

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    • Re: The meaning of your first name?

      Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
      According to wiki-pedia....

      Attempts to identify the origin of Alevism are inherently controversial. Many Alevis trace their tradition to primitive Islam and the Twelve Imams, a conclusion with which some prominent scholars agree. Others see Alevism as a pre-Islamic substrate which acquired a veneer of Shī‘ī theology, and disagree as to whether to describe this folk culture as Turkic or Persianate. Still others detect the influence of Orthodox (Byzantine) or Armenian Christianity. More than one of these viewpoints might be true simultaneously.
      As I said in my previous messages to explain Alevis is difficult. A Turkish Alevi (Bektashi) is different than a Zaza Alevi (Kizilbash). Kizilbash were the ones who fought for Safavid Iran against Ottomans. Kizilbash can be also Kurds, Afghans and even some Azaris. Nowadays Turks try to manipulate Alevi faith and make them Sunni Muslims. Some traditions we had are lost and others are disappearing. In short Alevis are becoming slowly Muslims just like Turks and Kurds.

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      • Re: The meaning of your first name?

        Originally posted by Jam View Post
        Cem is also the name of that pray. What is your name and what does your name mean?
        My name is Funda and it's a flower.The English version is Heather

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        • Re: The meaning of your first name?

          Originally posted by Jam View Post
          In short Alevis are becoming slowly Muslims just like Turks and Kurds.
          Some have even already lost their own identity...

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          • Re: The meaning of your first name?

            I have no idea what Narek means.

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            • Re: The meaning of your first name?

              Originally posted by knight22 View Post
              I have no idea what Narek means.
              According to Armenian First Names by Awde & Losi,
              -Nareg (Narek): From the name of a village and its famous Armenian monastery.

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              • Re: The meaning of your first name?

                Originally posted by SilverLining View Post
                According to Armenian First Names by Awde & Losi,
                -Nareg (Narek): From the name of a village and its famous Armenian monastery.
                Narek, Turkey

                Little is left of the monastery of Narek Vank near the village of Narek (now known as Yemislik) about 60km/37mi southwest of Van. The magnificent complex once stood on a hill roughly to the south of the road to Tatvan in the upper Narek Deresi but it has been dismantled and many examples of plundered building materials can be seen in the village houses.
                "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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                • Re: The meaning of your first name?

                  i dont know what Ara means but its the first 3 letters of ararat for sure

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                  • Re: The meaning of your first name?

                    I looked in a latin dictionary. Vigile =is a stick.The censors whipped the pupils. (My grand'mother's teacher had asked her to bring a stick to hit the hand of the naughty pupils. my grand-mother brought a stick, and the teacher tried it on her. She rememberd very well 70 years later and said I never again brought a stick to her)
                    it may be also a critic now. As we don't whip the children.

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                    • Re: The meaning of your first name?

                      Ara is the sun

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