բարեւներ:)

[Vrtanes]

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ha, asmar in arabic - brown skin/dark skin etc same

because you cannot say 'esmer' in arabic, it comes 'asmar', so armenians got it from arabic and armenified it, or some kept the arabic way to say, thats why we have two seperate armenian names now Asmarian ev Esmerian. i was just wondering if it was infact a pure armenian word, i wasnt sure so i came to ask. obviously it must come from my theory, and then turks copied from us.

i mean its like saying kebab, turks say kebab too, but is kebab turkish word? no is not! its arabic word كباب

[Yedtarts]

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It's originally from Arabic, اسمر (asmar) it means 'brown'.

ITS NOT TURKISH!!

Who gave the Turks their culture? Arabs, Greeks and Armenians, thats who. any Turkish word not of Mongolian origin is obviously from the above.

I thought we were talking about "Esmer" not "Asmar"

Didn't you said your family name is "Esmerian" and you wanted to know what "Esmer" means?

I'm not actually sure what it means 'Esmer'

And "Asmar" means dark skin not brown, brown is "buenney" in Arabic

[Vrtanes]

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It's originally from Arabic, اسمر (asmar) it means 'brown'.

ITS NOT TURKISH!!

Who gave the Turks their culture? Arabs, Greeks and Armenians, thats who. any Turkish word not of Mongolian origin is obviously from the above.

[Yedtarts]

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esmer IS NOT TURKISH!!!!!!

Yes it is!

[Yedtarts]

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I think it's originally Arabic from where Turks got the word, among a lot of other words.

That's right the Arabic word is "Asmar"

[Vrtanes]

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esmer IS NOT TURKISH!!!!!!

[Federate]

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Esmer is turkish, means dark skin, in Armenian we say "tookh"

I think it's originally Arabic from where Turks got the word, among a lot of other words.

[Yedtarts]

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I'm not actually sure what it means 'Esmer', im thinking it could be an Assyrian word? and its def not turkish, kurdish or azerbaijani, so dont ask. all my Greek friends think it is a Greek word lol.

Esmer is turkish, means dark skin, in Armenian we say "tookh"

[yerazhishda]

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So now you're practicing eastern?

I don't speak it and I'm not learning it.

No, but just from being on this forum I'm learning it (seeing other people write it and such)! Thought it was kinda cool. Sorry.

I didn't know you can speak Arabic. How did you learn?

[Vrtanes]

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Shnorhagaloutyoun

My other half is Australian, but I dont associate with that culture at all.

On my mothers side is full Armenian, my grandfather is born in palestine (jerusalem) both his parents are Armenian they were originally from Urfa (before AG), and my grandmother in Syria - her mother was Assyrian and her father was Armenian.

Kidem that most names are եան, բայց Էսմէրիան is not spelled Էսմերեան: chem kider why not, but I have signatures of my great great grandfather who spells his surname Էսմէրիան: but anyway you are all right it is still pronounced 'es-mer-yan'. Aussies are shocking ive heard them trying to prounce my name, Esmerian is pretty simple compared to other Armenian surnames you all must agree to that:P ive heard them prounced my last name as 'ez-meer-ee-yan' lol hahaha. AND 'Khachadryan' they prounced it 'kar-chard-rai-yan' omg wallah its sooo awful to hear it from an aussies mouth haha.

I'm not actually sure what it means 'Esmer', im thinking it could be an Assyrian word? and its def not turkish, kurdish or azerbaijani, so dont ask. all my Greek friends think it is a Greek word lol.

I reckon they should revert back to the traditional way, the reformed way was because of Soviet Union, they wanted to make it simpler when learning Armenian lol, well c'mon its not that hard to learn the rules, like յ is h at start and y everywhere else and sometiems silent etc. ah well.

I much prefer Western Armenian, Eastern (Classic) should only be spoken in the church I think.

Thank you everyone, and if u ever want help with Greek or Arabic, please ask, and i can teach you to read and write in many languages just for the fun of it there is no such thing as useless knowledge