English Explanatory Dictionary

Armenia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A country in the South Caucasus region of Asia, sometimes considered to belong politically to Europe. Official name: Republic of Armenia. Capital: Yerevan.
  2. Ancient kingdom in the Armenian Highland southeast of Black Sea and southwest of Caspian Sea; area now divided between Turkey, Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran.
  3. A town in Sonsonate department, El Salvador.
  4. Places in the Philippines:
  5. A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.
  6. A barangay of Uson, Masbate, Philippines.
  7. The capital city of Quindío department, Colombia.

Pronunciation

/ɑːˈmiːni.ə/ /ɑːˈmɪjnɪjə/ /ɑɹˈmi.ni.ə/ [ɑɹˈmi.njə] /aɾˈmi.ne.ə/ /-nɪ.ə/ /-ni.ə/ /aɹˈmen.ja/ en-us-Armenia.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Armenia.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Armenia.wav

Word forms

Armenia

Etymology

From Latin Armenia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρμενία (Armenía) (early 5th century BC), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴 (a-r-mi-i-n /⁠Armina⁠/) (late 6th century BC); see it for more. The Old Persian name is an exonym: see հայ (hay) for the native name. Attested in English since late 14th century.

Related words

Armenian Armenian SSR Meds Yeghern

Derived words

Eastern Armenia Greater Armenia Lesser Armenia Little Armenia Republic of Armenia Upper Armenia Western Armenia

Translations

Abkhaz: Ермантәыла Acehnese: Armènia Afrikaans: Armenië Akan: Aminia Akkadian: Uraštu Albanian: Armeni Albanian: Armenia Amharic: አርመኒያ Arabic: أَرْمِينِيَا Aragonese: Armenia Aramaic: ܐܪܡܢܝܐ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܡܸܢܝܼܵܐ Armenian: Հայաստան Armenian: Հայք Old Armenian: Հայք Aromanian: Arminii Aromanian: Arminie Aromanian: Armenii Aromanian: Armenie Aromanian: Ermenii Aromanian: Ermenie Aromanian: Arminia Aromanian: Armenia f Ermenia Assamese: আৰ্মেনিয়া Asturian: Armenia Avar: Цӏамухъ Azerbaijani: Ermənistan Azerbaijani: Ермәнистан Bashkir: Әрмәнстан Basque: Armenia Belarusian: Арме́нія Belarusian: Армэ́нія Bengali: আর্মেনিয়া Breton: Armenia Bulgarian: Арме́ния Burmese: အာမေးနီးယား Carpathian Rusyn: Арме́нія Catalan: Armènia Cebuano: Armenya Chechen: Эрмалойчоь Chechen: Армени Chinese Cantonese: 亞美尼亞 /亚美尼亚 Chinese: 亞美尼亞 /亚美尼亚 Chinese Mandarin: 亞美尼亞 /亚美尼亚 Chuvash: Армени Chuvash: Эрмени West Circassian: Ермэлые West Circassian: Армение Crimean Tatar: Ermenistan Czech: Arménie Danish: Armenien Dhivehi: އަރުމީނިއާ Dutch: Armenië Dzongkha: ཨར་མེ་ནི་ཡ
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