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Vinony

Armenian

proper noun

  1. person from Armenia
  2. language
L450106 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

  1. pertaining to Armenia
L450107 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɑːˈmiːni.ən/ / /ɑɹˈmini.ən/

adj

Etymology: From Armenia + -an.

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, the Armenian people, the Armenian language, or the Armenian alphabet.

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

name

Etymology: From Armenia + -an.

  1. The language of Armenia and the Armenian people, whose older stages are Old Armenian and Middle Armenian.
  2. A branch of Indo-European languages, which includes the various stages of the Armenian language.

noun

Etymology: From Armenia + -an.

  1. A person of an Indo-European ethnic group native to the Armenian Highlands, comprising the ethnic majority of Armenia.

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