Armenian

//ɑːˈmiːni.ən// adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person from Armenia or of Armenian descent.

    "The Armenians were led in turn, however, by a politicized vanguard often living cosmopolitan, urban lives remote from rural eastern Anatolia"

  2. 2
    a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written wordnet
  3. 3
    the Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia, but also in Azerbaijan wordnet
  4. 4
    a native or inhabitant of Armenia wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, the Armenian people, the Armenian language, or the Armenian alphabet. not-comparable

    "Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or pertaining to Armenia or the people or culture of Armenia wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The language of Armenia and the Armenian people, whose older stages are Old Armenian and Middle Armenian. uncountable
  2. 2
    A branch of Indo-European languages, which includes the various stages of the Armenian language. uncountable

Synonyms

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armenian alphabetarmenian languagearmenicashkharhabarashkharhabarenglish

Example

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"The Armenian Genocide left a total of one million and five hundred thousand deaths, including men, women and children."

Etymology

From Armenia + -an.

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