arminé with an է

armenianposting, or things I think are cool and resonate 🇦🇲 ֎ "Artsakh was, is, and always will be, regardless of attempts to rewrite history." ֎ 🇦🇲

[insonniacaotica]

Studying is hard, but at least you weren't born into the House of Atreus. You can do this.

[arevmdianarakil]

the incomparable high of giving a compliment to strangers. the maniacal glee i feel like i just completed a marathon or something. you poor, simple fool, you fell right into my trap: having an innocuous detail about yourself noticed and praised. i’m unstoppable.

[harminuya]

Taraz held at the Dzitoghtsyan House-Museum of Social Life and National Architecture, Gyumri, Armenia.

[dailycatsblog]

[arevmdianarakil]

🌊 ocean

oh some of my good friends live there!

[arevmdianarakil]

pari gesor harkeli mutual! inch ga chi ga?

meg yergu pan unim hartsnelu if you dont mind,

what do you know about -իլ verbs that dont have the -եց- in the past tense? like սկսիլ - սկսայ etc. i remember my teacher mentioning this one time but i can't remember which verbs they apply to. will be relevant to a post i'm working on! and the imperatives are coming soon as soon as i get past this obstacle

vartskt gadar!

ahlen sireli mutual! hech pamme hima knnagan shrchan e koves g mernimgor lol

I'm going to be quite honest, I remembered learning about this as well, but it has been many years since my Armenian classes and I didn't quite recall either (հազար ներողութիւն, Տիկին Պիլալեան).

As per «Արեւմտահայերէնի Քերականութեան Պատմութիւն» by Ա. Ֆիշենկճեան, though, this phenomenon is not restricted to verbs with the -իլ ending, but rather those verbs which are irregular not because their roots change in certain conjugations, but because the endings taken in certain conjugations differ from the model (տիպար). So NOT verbs like զարնել, which becomes զարկի in the simple past, where the root of the verb itself changes.

In the book, such verbs are called զարտուղի (while ones like զարնել are called անկանոն). These are the categories of verbs which are often զարտուղի:

-ցնել infinitive ending: անցնել, լեցնել, and so on

passive verbs of the -իլ ending (կրաւորական)

verbs with the infix -ն-: մտնել, մեռնիլ, հասնիլ, հեծնել, and so on (the author warns us to be careful of those verbs which have the letter ն already in their root and not to mix that up with the infix -ն-, such as մատնել (կանոնաւոր) vs մտնել (անկանոն) )

There is, as always, a list of exceptions (and սկսիլ is one of them), but this is the general gist of it. If you'd like to read more, literally just searching արեւմտահայերէնի քերականան պատմութիւն should bring up the pdf of the book.

husam oknets! yalla kal post-it g sbasem 🙏

[maimonideznuts]

My eternal question for the Antisemitic anti Zionist hoards that materialised only a couple of weeks after Azerbaijan expelled its entire Armenian population barring a few dozen... Materialising all because Jews were murdered.

Artsakh was besieged for almost a year, before people were expelled... their land, property and assets seized by Azerbaijan.

The Armenians didn't get thousands of people marching for them in every major city on earth; the Armenians didn't get people advocating that Azerbaijan should be banned from the Olympic Games; there was no groundswell of support to push national leadership to boycott the climate summit being hosted by Azerbaijan.

Kim Kardashian tried to bring attention to the urgency of the situation before it collapsed, the plight of Artsakh was referred to as a "heart of darkness" by one guest commentator I saw on DeutchWelle

But yeah... You only leapt into action when Jews were your enemy. It is truly unfortunate that this hateful early 20th century quote still applies, "after all, who remembers the Armenians?"

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Seriously, it felt like it was me, some Jews, some Armenians and some Armenian Jews talking about this before Oct 7. A small circle on Tumblr.

[metamorphesque]

what can we do to help the people of armenia? as a hong konger i feel like im a little powerless. what organisations do you recommend donating to?

It's really thoughtful of you to ask, thank you!

The most important thing one can do is keep talking about Armenia. The media doesn't give any attention to the struggles and suffering of Armenians, so spreading the word, even through conversations with friends and family, can help immensely.

As for donations, here are a few organizations that are worth looking into:

All for Armenia

Artsakh Relocation Project

Children of Armenia Fund (COAF)

Armenian Food Bank

IMAST

AGBU

[arevmdianarakil]

If I may add, HubArtsakh is another organization to look towards. They’re accepting donations right now for their Slatsk program, which aims to re-skill forcibly displaced Artsakhtsi women who previously depended on their male family members lost to the conflict with Azerbaijan for income. With their help, these women can enter the workforce and support their families, and you can help fund the next round of workshops.

The team behind HubArtsakh is an awesome, tight-knit group of highly motivated women. I really can’t commend their work enough.

[feral-ballad]

Sayat Nova, from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "I traveled the world"

[Text ID: “I want to understand the heart beating inside you.”]

[tinyuglyworld]

A poster by ASALA (Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia) expressing solidarity with the Palestinian cause

“Long live the partnership of the oppressed peoples in their revolutionary struggle against colonialism and Zionism. The unity of the revolutionaries is the path to victory, from Palestine to Armenia”

[cavalierzee]

Jewish Extremists Target Armenian Christians In Occupied Jerusalem

Ethnically Cleanse the local population to bring about demographic change, to ensure Israeli Jews have numerical superiority and dominance over Christians and Muslims.

[arevmdianarakil]

Reprehensible. To taint centuries of history of collaboration and coexistence with such hateful, disgusting rhetoric is a shame and a dishonor. Once again, Armenians ending up in the crossfire of a larger conflict for the crime of happening to be there.

[depsidase]

[metamorphesque]

These past two days, I've received messages asking how I feel as an Armenian toward israel recognizing the Armenian Genocide. I am not so naive as to think israel's ever-dormant conscience suddenly woke up one day and, after decades of actively denying the Armenian Genocide and using its lobbies to prevent U.S. recognition, decided to finally face the truth and "do the right thing". Anyone who is even the least bit aware of global politics can clearly see israel's negative stance toward Armenia and Armenians. Look at how the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem is being treated. israelis defecate and spit at the doors of Armenian churches with no punishment. Only three years ago, israel was actively arming and supporting azerbaijan in its policies of ethnic cleansing in Artsakh. It is clear that israel's recognition of the Armenian Genocide has absolutely nothing to do with Armenians. Nor does it have anything to do with justice or historical truth. So why did they recognize the Armenian Genocide, and why especially now? From what I can see, the first reason is the weaponization of the Armenian Genocide against turkey. It's a common practice; whenever any government (israel has done this before, and so has the U.S.) wants to oppose turkey for one reason or another, the Armenian question is always the first weapon used. The second reason might be the fact that israel wants its own share of the tripp. As you might know, the current self-proclaimed "Armenian" government has sold some of our land to the U.S. under the pretense of "peace and prosperity". The transit routes would pass dangerously close to the Iranian border. I don't think I need to explain why israel would want to have a presence here. How do I feel about it? Not surprised, yet livid all the same. The fact that the country actively involved in committing a genocide is sticking its filthy hands in my people's wounds and using the blood to write its own agenda can evoke only one emotion— rage.

[arevmdianarakil]

it’s when geopolitical chicanery like this pops up that i get particularly furious at a subsection of Armenians who fall into the trap of glorifying the nation of Israel as an exemplary precedent for a previously oppressed nation who fought for its right of self determination and is now determining world politics along with the rest of the global superpowers.

israel was the primary military supplier of azerbaijan during the 44-day war in 2020. israel is desecrating the centuries-long presence of armenians in its capital in a truly mortifying, absolutely shameless way. the armenians who claim that israel is an exemplary nation for what Armenia should be are failing to understand that, just like how the government of israel represents only its most extremist demographics, the government of Armenia would further devolve into even more of a fucking caricature than it is now.

if even the clownish PM of the current party in power could recognize that a statement of recognition from the israeli government means close to nothing, then it’s quite fucking clear what your stance as an Armenian should be on this.

[ayeforscotland]

Lads, it's hot.

[translatingpostsintolithuanian]

chebra, karšta.

[official-lauchzwiebel]

Jungs, es is heiß.

[pivo-rizky-svickova]

Chábři, je vedro.

[geschiedenis-en-talen]

Gasten, het is warm

[arevmdianarakil]

ժողովուրդ, տաք է։

[lizard-reads-the-world]

YA Books About Armenia 🇦🇲

Master Book List for the YA World Challenge for 🇦🇲 Armenia

YA Like Water on Stone, Dana Walrath ⌛ Forgotten Fire, Adam Bagdasarian 💚🛩️⌛ Daughter of War, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch 🛩️⌛ Lake of Sighs, Meli Sarkissian 💚🦋 One Man Guy, Michael Barakiva 💚🛩️🌈 As the Poppies Bloomed, Maral Boyadjian 💚⌛

NA/Coming-of-age All the Light There Was, Nancy Kricorian 💚⌛🛩️ The Gray House, Mariam Petrosyan 💚🦋 The Gimmicks, Chris McCormick The Spice Box Letters, Eve Makis ⌛🛩️ A Place Far Away, Vahan Zanoyan 💚 My Name is Aram, William Saroyan 💚🛩️

Memoir Four Years in the Mountains of Kurdistan, Aram Haigaz 💚 Vergeen: A Survivor of the Armenian Genocide, Mae Derdarian

Childrens A Weave of Words: An Armenian Tale, Robert D. San Souci

Adult books to consider Three Apples Fell from the Sky, Narine Abgaryan 💚⌛ The Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian 💚⌛ Rise of the Phoenix, T. Isajanyan 💚🦋 Mayda, Srpuhi Dussap 💚⌛

💚 Native Author 🛩️ Immigrant or diaspora 🏖️ non-native characters in or about the country (ex. vacation/adventure) ⌛ Historical 🦋 Fantasy 🌈 LGBT

[metamorphesque]

Birth of Vahagn (Vahagn the Dragon-Reaper), from History of the Armenians by Movses Khorenatsi (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

[decafblackberrymora]

some contractions that (western) armenians* do:

ես -> 'ս

ինչ -> 'չ ('նչ when preceded immediately by a vowel w/o pauses)

հոս/հոն -> 'ոս/'ոն (initial h is dropped frequently)

որովհետեւ -> որտեւ / որով

հիմայ -> 'մա

այսօր -> 'սսօր

այստեղէն -> սստեղէն

աս(ի) -> սս(ի) [սս being clitic]

օրինակ -> օրնակ

*the western armenian in question: me

[arevmdianarakil]

some additions, if i may:

մէկ հատ > մէքատ

բան մը > բամմը

ըսաւ > ՚սաւ

ծամել > ծամմել

and probably a lot more that aren’t coming to mind right now