The Armenian Mysteries of Chocolate
Chocolate is 365 days around us, but the end of the year is one of those times when we may be litera...
08
Dec
Armenian Language Corner
21
Sep
HOW CLOSE ARE THE POOL AND THE SAND?
The sound of words always has a deceptive quality. Words with various meanings or with sounds that a...
17
Aug
Where Did Madzoon Come From?
It is interesting to note that the word mazoon appears to mean “rain-making clouds” in Arabic, and a...
30
Jun
Another Mashdots (Not St. Mesrob)
Everybody knows that St. Mesrob Mashdots was the creator of the Armenian alphabet and has a fair ide...
26
May
From Creation till Today
In the fifth day of Creation, “God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle ...
21
Apr
About Avoiding Spelling Mistakes
We usually have problems when we try to transcribe an Armenian name into English. Sometimes people h...
17
Mar
WHITE VS. WHITE
You can say “snowy” or “milky,” but you know that those are not straightforward synonyms for “white....
10
Feb
Not “Armed Children”
As anyone knows, մանուկ (manook) means “child.” But this is the modern meaning. In the past, this Ar...
27
Jan
Men Did Not Come from the Cave
In the dawn of human existence, early humans found caves as one of their first refuges. This was the...
13
Jan
About Dragomans and Tarkmans
If you read literature related to the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East in the modern and early con...