Why Is Hayastan Called Armenia In English?

[@NameExplain]

Would love to know if anyone is watching from Hayastan/Armenia!

[@miti_w]

I would love if you did a video on Albania’s name :) thank you

[@jahern]

not me

[@miti_w]

@@jahern and why is that

[@jahern]

@@miti_w I was saying “not me” to “is anyone watching from Armenia?”

[@miti_w]

@@jahern oh I apologize

[@bondex392]

Armenians used word Hayq before the arabic/persian conquests of Armenia. This "k/q" was used to call other countries too. Huynq - Greece Virk - Georgia Honk - Huns Parsq - Persia. E.t.c

[@trelosyiaellinika]

The q suffix denotes the plural in classical Armenian.

[@thedownfallparodist1145]

You Should Do Why is Hrvatska called Croatia in English

[@rjdjdjdj5623]

Isn't it just Hrvat being translated as Croat via Kravat?

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

Lmao I've been playing aoe2 with a bloke called Hrvatska. It took me ages to figure out where he was from since I saw him speak it, but I had no idea that his name was literally Croatia. Makes me feel dumb but at least I figured out what he was speaking before this lol.

[@servantofaeie1569]

Hrvat Krvat Kruat Kroat Croat

[@mattpotter8725]

Why should do why??? This isn't English either!!! I'm sure this just have been lost in translation, but I think you mean why on earth is Hrvatska called Croatia in English? This is a valid question why I'm sure he'll do a video on at some stage. Other countries like this are Hungary, Switzerland, Finland, and Greece.

[@mikesaunders4775]

Hravat is also the source of the word 'Cravat'. Croats were well known for wearing this item of neckwear,which spread to other cultures.

[@kessabtzi]

The two names derive from the two early tribes, Hayks and Armens, that converged to form them Armenian civilization. To refer to an Armenian as Hay or Armenian are both correct, and can be used interchangeably. Hayk Nahabed, who battled King Bel of Babylonia, is considered the founder of the Armenian nation. For that reason, when speaking our mother tongue, we say Hayastan or Hay when referring to the country and people respectively. The proto-Armenian civilization of Urartu, from which the name Ararat derives, dates back to as early as the 13th century BC, if not earlier. I hope this helped.

[@Bemaye]

I'm Armenian and wanted to say that the word "Hay" means Armenian, the ethnicity and the name "Hay" or "Hayer" (plural) could be from Hayasa or Hayk, as in Armenian Greater Armenia is called "Mets Hayk" or "Greater Hayk"

[@catspaw3815]

Almost every Armenian I meet is an educated, highly motivated person who excels in whatever they're doing

[@catspaw3815]

@S M lol

[@AndyWelsh94]

"Mercedes is a super car, bro"

[@andrewlonghofer]

never met the Kardashians, then, huh

[@armanbadikyan3811]

thanks G

[@zhongli6724]

But they don't now history

[@Cynthia-fq4ro]

half Armenian from the Syrian Diaspora :)) thank you for making this

[@dirtyox6862]

Fuck you

[@Cynthia-fq4ro]

@@dirtyox6862 how pathetic. You're getting offended by my existence

[@erik7030]

@@dirtyox6862 fuck off

[@Chicomuradov]

Armenians are from india ,. Same language same people !!!

[@Cynthia-fq4ro]

@@Chicomuradov someone's geography books must be rigged 😩

[@Mike-pt4pc]

I am an Armenian and I want to explain why we call it Hayastan. Hayastan is written հայաստան in Armenian. տան simply means house in Armenian, and հայ means Armenian. So if we merge both of these words, we get հայաստան, or simply the house of Armenians. Hayastan is simply the name of the country in English letters. Hope this clarifies the origin of the name.

[@alicemeliksetian7981]

Ok this says nothing. And he’s actually explaining it.

[@miti_w]

Please do why is Shqipëria called Albania in English :))

[@Denis-eg9tj]

😂

[@miti_w]

@@Denis-eg9tj huh?

[@allanrichardson1468]

I remember reading that it comes from the Latin “albus,” meaning “white,” from its snow covered mountains. Similarly, England is sometimes poetically called Albion from the White Cliffs of Dover, and some cities in England and the US are named Albany (including the capital of New York, which is NOT New York City). And the character Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter books, probably to indicate that he is a “white,” or “good,” wizard. In science, the protein forming the whites of eggs is called albumin, and a mutant animal that produces none of the dark pigment called melanin (from the Greek μέλας (melas), meaning black) is called an albino (the condition is called albinism).

[@miti_w]

@@allanrichardson1468 that’s a good theory but actually it is the latinized version of Arbëria , which is what Albanians called themselves before the 17th century. After George Kastrioti United the Albanian principalities for a revolt against the ottomans we called the language Shqip. And then Shqipt-ar just stuck from the Slavic or ugric suffix

[@miti_w]

@@allanrichardson1468 and where did Shqip come from? the fact that it was initially limited to indicating the language makes me prefer this theory: it might derive from the verb shqiptoj (“I pronounce, I say clearly”), from the Latin excĭpĭo (“to extract”, and many related meanings). Thus, the Albanians would call themselves “those who speak clearly”, just like the Slavs (slovo=“word”) and many other peoples do, including those few, godforsaken Tosk Albanians who ended up in the Ukraine, who call themselves ga tantë (“from ours”) and who speak si neve (“like us”).

[@thedon1784]

We really don't have to stray outside the Armenian language to understand the naming. Using Armenian we can explain with etymology. Armenia - Ar(Sun/God) - Men (people) hence people of the Sun or God. Ar was the ancient Armenian Sun God. Hayastan - Hay(Haky or Hayasa ancient tribe in the region) and Tun(house). So House of Hayk or Hous of Hays or Hayas.

[@armen4ok280]

Not true, Armen is the name that the persians gave us, and “men” doesnt mean the same thing that it means in english

[@thedon1784]

@armen4ok280 menk. The Persians didn't just happen to call us Armilenians for no reason. I tried simplifying the explanation, but you are correct. Men doesn't translate directly to people. But "menk" does translate directly to mean "us" or Ar-menk, We are People of the Sun

[@armen4ok280]

@@thedon1784 ahh i get it, thanks for the clarification

[@yvavi6851]

Somkheti actually comes from the Georgian word Samkhreti meaning south

[@zeratultasadarov401]

In Armenian we call Georgia as Vrastan which comes from Armenian Virq - up

[@Andreas-bw5zx]

@@zeratultasadarov401 it is related to Vir tribes. Վիր and Վեր different roots, not speaking about Վէր tho.

[@zeratultasadarov401]

@@Andreas-bw5zx didn’t find anything about vir tribes could you please give me the source?

[@alicemeliksetian7981]

@@zeratultasadarov401😂😂interesting always wanted to know the origin of that.

[@johnegeland]

"The Hitties" are the Hittites, I guess.

[@mickeyrube6623]

Thank you! I was like, Hitties, who are the Hitties? All I can find on google is that Hatti is the land of the HITTITES, not the Hitties.

[@imokin86]

The Hitties were those Hittites who wore long hair and bead necklaces.

[@rauðaz]

He said Hatti, they were a non-Indo-Eurorpean population that preceded the Hittites

[@mickeyrube6623]

@@rauðaz 7:44 He literally say "The Hitittes". Who are the Hitittes? No one, he just made that name up.

[@rauðaz]

@@mickeyrube6623 It doesn't say anything on 7:44, it talks about the Hatti on 3:47, not on the Hittites, who came after. The name of the Hittites probably came from the name of the Hatti too after historically the Indo-Europeans settled in Anatia and mixed with them, nobody is saying it came out of nowhere.

[@BN.ja05]

As a colombian, I wonder why the capital city of the Quindío department (administrative division similar to a province) is called Armenia aswell as the country in the caucasus mountains, even though there's no clear relationship between the two...

[@bruxi78230]

Hi Jaime, I've noticed the same thing as you. I believe it is just a naming convention in the region. Near to Armenia you have European place names like Córdoba, Sevilla, Génova, Andalucía and Versalles. Also in the region are place names of cities around the Mediterranean such as Cartago, El Cairo, Montenegro, Argelia and even the famous department of Antioquia.

[@armennazarian7097]

Armenia, Colombia was actually either named in honor of the victims of the Hamidian massacres or after the Kingdom of Armenia in the bible.

[@AraleluYah]

Looking at when it was founded most likely a lot of armenians moved there from many of the persecution and find peace there. Founded in 1889 this why with many of them look armenian ethnicity wise also. I have understanding from the 1900 turks Islamic genocide against the armenian.

[@qapra]

There is a few corrections I want to make but this is in no way to undermine your video because this is well researched and great. You mention the mythical progenitor Hayk, note I write it with a K (Հայկ). The name of the country in ancient times, pre-Hayastan, was Hayq with a Q (Հայք) which is a different word/sound than Hayk. -q was an old Armenian suffix that basically means country-of, and was used in the names of other countries too (Caucasian Albania was called Aghvanq/Alvanq) but has mostly been replaced with -stan and -ia/-ya by now. The Hittites and Hattites were two different groups of peoples, the Hittites conquered and took the name of the Hattites, but it mutated into Hittite. The Hittites lived in what would be Western Turkey in modern times, during the Bronze Age, so before any significant Armenian migration into Western Turkey. The Hayasa lived in what would be North-Eastern Turkey today and lived alongside the same time as the Hittites, and I'm not aware of any historian that argues that the Hayasa or the Hay (Armenian in Armenian) descend from the Hittites or Hattites, although it is very likely that the Hayasa = Hay, and the Hay being the post-bronze Age Armenians. On top of this, during the late Bronze Age, Bronze Age Collapse, and for a while the following age, in what would be South Eastern Turkey lived the Van culture, who historians typically called Urartu, which is their exonym in semtic languages like Assyiran. Van/Urartu and Assyria both descended from a common kingdom but that's another story. The Van also had the exonym Armenia in the Iranian kingdoms, and later after Iran took over Assyria, the named Urartu was replaced with Armenia, and that's how the name spread to Greece and the rest of Europe. (Note that Van did not call themselves Urartu or Armenia, but Historians today call them Urartu.) The Kingdoms of Urartu and the post-Bronze Age Hay people (Armenians) merged over the course of a few hundred years into one people, known as the Hay in their own language, and as the Armenians in other languages, an exonym inherited from one of the two main ethnic groups they were made up of. Thanks for the video and bringing attention to Armenian history!

[@amirhosseinmaghsoodi388]

About the stan countries part if you speak persian basically a big chunk of the world becomes the stan countries as even Patrick the Name Explainer's country ends with stan in persian being Englestan

[@brokkrep]

Stan is just their word for land.

[@Momoisgoated]

This sometimes can apply to turkish but not to all countries, and in some other languages near iran like urdu i think. Arabic does not use stan btw.

[@Momoisgoated]

@@croatianwarmaster7872 where does the name hrvat(ska) comes from and why is it super different from English Croatia

[@Nikolaj11]

@@Momoisgoated Not an expert, but I believe it comes from the same original name. Supposedly the tribe that migrated to today's Croatia was called the *Hrvati,* but in other slavic languages, if you look it up, you'll notice that the name is pronounced slightly differently; for example Polish *Chorwaci.* "Croatia" is most likely just how the name came to be recorded at some point, apparently there's scarcity of literary sources on the etymology of the name.

[@Norik00]

Same for Armenian actually,some examples: Rusastan = Russia Parskastan = Persia (Iran) Vrastan = Georgia Chinastan = China ...

[@sweetbabylambchop]

Armenian American here, thank you for making this vid, most people don't even know we exist

[@roubikebrahimi5890]

Thanks for your research ... i am an Armenian and i learned some history from your hard work .....High FIVE

[@Aloemancer]

Might as well ask why Zhōngguó is called China if you haven't already

[@manuelbonet]

That's because they considered themselves to be the middle of the world (therefore middle country), or so I've heard

[@sandybarnes887]

From the Chin dynasty. He covers it here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5e3eJWijpmBe7s

[@AdwinLauYuTan]

@@manuelbonet Well, no. 中 (zhong) can mean middle, but it used to mean the best as well.

[@manuelbonet]

@@AdwinLauYuTan That would be much more sensible than the explanation my Chinese teacher gave me

[@someonet9869]

btw in russian it calles Китай (Kitai) and in armenian Chinastan

[@harveymogarawanderingfilip5318]

My favorite country, I want to met someone from this country. From Philippines.

[@itachi4130]

Sup, I’m Armenian

[@harveymogarawanderingfilip5318]

@@itachi4130 Barev to you my friend (I know a little bit of your language, only basic ones).

[@armennazarian7097]

Barev my friend.

[@PantheonEagle]

Thanks for the video 🇦🇲💪

[@erik7030]

DUXOV

[@karimisrafilov2481]

Nolduuu pasinyannnn ananizi siktikk. #babykillerarmenia #KarabakhisAzerbaijan

[@aresz2537]

Karabakh is Azerbaijan 🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@gamermapper]

@@aresz2537 I don't think someone asked

[@gamermapper]

@@karimisrafilov2481 no one asked

[@aymarafan7669]

I’ve always wanted to visit Armenia and the surrounding region so terrible what is going on over there at moment. My friends over there really trying to get through it all. Sadly I think some family of theirs is conscripted to fight in Artsakh region.

[@alexanderofrhodes9622]

Now we just need their neighbors to stop bullying them

[@AvrahamYairStern]

No🇮🇱❤️🇹🇷

[@AvrahamYairStern]

@Sari Çizmeli Mehmet Ağa Evet! 🇮🇱❤️🇹🇷

[@iamarmenianm]

No one can bully us, the bully will be bullied in our lands.

[@johnsnow1974]

@Sari Çizmeli Mehmet Ağa they don't just claim it they have evidence proving it.

[@nicoleiadammegherdichans1474]

@Sari Çizmeli Mehmet Ağa hey there is a difference between claiming and reclaiming

[@Momoisgoated]

Can you do Egypt and morocco next? They're called Masr (egypt) and Maghrib (morocco) in arabic Algeria is also a shout out but they're similar Al-Djzaer (algeria is just romanized of al djzaer)

[@allanrichardson1468]

Egypt is called מצרימ (Mitzraim) in Hebrew.

[@Momoisgoated]

​@@allanrichardson1468 i see how it's similar but there are multiple other reasons like Ham I who lived in egypt and his name is Masr in arabic, there are 3 of them who where called Masr and lived in there that's probably the best reason so far Mitzraim is a good shout too but how did hebrew get it's word? probably the same reason i mentioned from Ham

[@allanrichardson1468]

@@Momoisgoated That’s the word used in the Torah. Hebrew and Arabic are related Semitic languages. Maybe the ancient Egyptian (NOT a Semitic language) word Masr became Matza in early Hebrew, then Mitzraim. In fact, I just realized the similarity to Matzoh, the unleavened bread eaten at Passover, because they didn’t have time for the dough to rise before leaving Egypt. That may be only a coincidence, though. In any event, good to talk to y’all. Shalom/Salaam

[@Momoisgoated]

​@@allanrichardson1468 yeah i know we're both semetic we come from the same language family and Aramiac is very close to hebrew and my ancestors are Aramiac i believe. and there are many reasons both of these words are ancient just like egypt itself so it's really had to know. and thanks for taking your time from your day, ma' al-salama

[@Momoisgoated]

@@allanrichardson1468 and now that i think about it there are more country names in arabic that are differnet in english. Like china, we call china الصين you should search how to spell it because it's impossible to pronounce it in latin alphabet

[@soL.33]

Thx for the video.. My name is Armen and I was born in Yerevan... I had heard tales from frnds and relatives in Armenia back in the 90s when i was in my early teens right before i moved to California. They would tell me about how during the times of Hayk The Great after he conquered Babylon, he, his ppl and all those whom he set free, including the Israelite.. After the fall of Babylon they traveled north to go back and settle in The Land of Ararat which they called Ararat/Urartu,, So for sometime after that, for some reason there were now 2 groups of people, one calling themselves "hayas" and the other "armen" as scholoars like to use "azzi" insteadof armen, not sure why... but they both shared there ancestral roots to Ararat and those lands... It is very hard to find any information even referernecing these 2 different groups who share so much as if they are of the same ethnicity "Ancient Armenian" but differ not in DNA or ancestral roots but diifer in something that is more spiritual.. and one being more negative, like soomething came into the dna line and slowly the corruption spread... idk... it might sound crazy but, dont get me wrong Armenians are some of the nicest and more honest and care ppl youll meet.. But we Armenians even speak about this stuff.. That for some reason Armenians are not as nice to each other, and others seeming like infiltrators posing as Armenians desecrating our name and roots, e.x Kim Kardashian" and even on Armenian TV programs spreading lies and Turkey propaganda... They show and parade that trash to rep armenians but not the world class chess masters, musicians, engineers, artists, architects, inventor which have effected in huge degrees to modern living... But never a word of those amazing ppl.. just Kim K and w.e.... And how the own of the MGM in Vegas was Mr. Krikoryan and being as rich as he was, tried to make a movie for theaters tellling the Armenians Genocide in a Drama film.. Turkish influence wouldnt allow him to playit anywherer... Remembber this was the owner of the MGM in VEGAS.. and he still ran into dead ends.. His dieing wish was to get it all done and screened at theateer all across the world.. He died right before he was able to watch his dream finally finished... An immigrant after the Armenian Genocide becomes the ownedd of the MGM in Vegas... Thats why they do not allow true Armenians and Armenia prosper... Im tellin ya... Its there if you have eyes to see.. And unfortunetly my fellow Armenians are to trusting, trying to see the best in ppl.... God Bless

[@erik7030]

God blessing all the Armenians

[@erik7030]

DUXOV

[@Chicomuradov]

Armenians are from india ,. Same language same people !!!

[@alexkal4696]

@@Chicomuradov no theyre not! not even north indians are from india smh.

[@Chicomuradov]

@@alexkal4696 hahaha , but they all come from syria ,iran ,india ,

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

3:04 - -stan doesn't mean place or country of, that implies forieign places. The -stan suffix comes from _ostan_ which is Persian for state, province, county, oblast, etc. That is, they used to be administrative territories of the Persian empire.

[@keongoring3227]

But it usually went hand and hand with the peoples that live in said region that was ruled by persia

[@crystalwolcott4744]

Woah that's so cool!

[@keongoring3227]

Many times throught the Persian empires existence the region of the stans have been under persan rule on many occasions also iraq did go to war for 8 years with iran for Khuzestan the oil provinces bordering Iraq in the 80s. I can also name Iranian Kurdistan and baluchestan two more provinces of modern day iran with stan also iran is also known as Ostan.

[@adityac3239]

@@bambarbia Sistan and Baluchestan Province

[@granttiss]

Not really true. Most nearby countries like Georgia, Russia and Poland are also called with Stan in Armenian and Farsi

[@greamespens1460]

When I think of Armenia I think of System of a down's song Holy Mountains which is about their genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

[@andrewmcdonald5275]

They dropped a new song today

[@leevi0480]

LOL no. fake genocide

[@greamespens1460]

@@andrewmcdonald5275 thank you

[@alexkal4696]

@@leevi0480 no

[@leevi0480]

@@alexkal4696 yes

[@danieladownie6087]

Armenia👏❤️💙🧡

[@leevi0480]

Azerbaijan 👏💙❤️💚

[@alexkal4696]

@@leevi0480 love how nobody mentioned azerbaijan in the first place

[@armeniancrusader301]

@@alexkal4696 They‘re comment warriors that invade every Armenian video.

[@modmaker7617]

Georgia / Sakartvelo Armenia / Hayastan Azerbaijan / Azərbaycan Why is Azerbaijan the only Caucasus country that has the pretty much the same name in English & the native language?

[@alexkal4696]

because prior to the ussr, they were turks who settled north of the iranian azerbaijan region, but under stalin's rule, they were given an identity known as azerbaijani. otherwise, georgia and armenia are suuuuuper ancient countries

[@soap_764]

@@alexkal4696 facts, because Azerbaijan wasn’t a country until 1918. Prior to Stalin’s takeover of the USSR Azerbaijani wasn’t a thing, the people of the area were known as Tartar Turks. While Georgia has a very old and rich history, and Armenia is the oldest in the area. Armenia at one point connected the Caspian, Black, and Mediterranean Seas

[@ZecaPinto1]

Because their people decided to create its country later than their neighbors

[@gilgamesh_9119]

​@@soap_764 Armenia is not the oldest in the Area. The oldest political formation in the Caucasus was Colchis, which is western Georgia. The same Colchis which hosted the Golden Fleece that the Argonauts were after. One of the theories of the name "Armenia" in the video points to a Greek Mythology that already has a Georgian state in it.

[@soap_764]

@@gilgamesh_9119 Oh, I didn’t know that. Thank you for educating me. I’m not being sarcastic, Ik it can sound sarcastic. I meant like out of the 3 current countries Armenia is the oldest, but I didn’t know there was a state in that area named Colchis.

[@brokkrep]

You may be high, but you're not as Haiastan.

[@catspaw3815]

lol

[@jakubpociecha8819]

May I meet him?

[@iamarmenianm]

Armenians call themselves Hay and country Hayastan. So we all are High

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

I’m Armenian and that’s funny lol

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

🇦🇲🤝🍃🌬

[@tsiagian6610]

Name explain your channel name for the next episode. We want to know the history of your channel.

[@armanbadikyan3811]

imagine being named after your country😌

[@armennazarian7097]

same

[@tuqay5736]

Imagine not beign terrorist from armenia bruhhh

[@armennazarian7097]

@@tuqay5736 Imagine being a chauvinistic dickhead from "Turkey"

[@armennazarian7097]

@@tuqay5736 I literally give zero shits

[@tuqay5736]

@@armennazarian7097 zero shits nice english 😂 Also armenians don't respect their country of course you will not give shit 😂😂👌

[@thepcmaster]

Side note: You correctly wrote the Slovak name "Arménsko" but you managed to pronounce [ar-me-NE-sko]. Extra vowels often slip in for EN/FR/?? native speakers when trying to pronounce Slavic languages but this one caught me off-guard! :D Should simply read [ar-me:n-sko]. Nice vid tho, thx!

[@lordmaniac9775]

I used to work at a car dealership on the west coast, my employer was an Armenian. He made me employee of the month once, but my co-worker thought it was an elaborate joke.

[@iamarmenianm]

Is this from GTA?)

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

Thank you, I’ve been wondering this for so long

[@hackerhacker-ms2wy]

In Armenian lots of countries have stan. Russia rusastan India hundkastan Georgia verastan China chinastan ( I didn't make it up) And the stans in English

[@NeoAcoustix]

Thanks for the video! btw Hayk (the name of Hayk the Great) and Hayq (how armenians called Armenia in the ancient times) are not being pronounced the same way and mean different things.The "Q" ending in armenian means plurality."Du (doo) means you(singular),DuQ - you(plural).Hay means armenian and HayQ - "the armenian nation" or "a state of armenian people".Ancient armenian state - Armenia Maior (The Greater Armenia) in armenian was called Mets(Big) Hayq.

[@vve2059]

Yes the real name is Hayakstan. Egyptians noted the people as Hyksos the raiders

[@NeoAcoustix]

@@vve2059 no, Hayastan , without "k", which means a land/state/country of armenians (hays)

[@petartoshkov2076]

I mean there are Sirbistan, Hrvatistan, Bulgaristan and Yunanistan that are away from the Caspian Sea but these are all in Turkish

[@GD-bm1bu]

Ottoman💪

[@Counteris16]

Nagorno-Karabakh is Armenian.

[@Counteris16]

North-western part of Iran is Azerbaijani.

[@Counteris16]

Moldova is Romanian.

[@Counteris16]

Austria, Luxembourg, Trentino (Italy), Alsace-Lorraine (France), eastern part of Liege (Belgium), german parts of Switzerland and Liechtenstein are German.

[@Counteris16]

Szekely land is Hungarian.

[@Counteris16]

Kosovo is Albanian.

[@legendmk52]

I saw some comment saying that only Azerbaijan has its name in English similar to its native name (in the Caucasus). And that is a good point cuz it is not just Georgia and Armenia with the opposite. Most Caucasus places, in fact: Ossetia is actually Ir'ston (Ирыстон) Abkhazia is Apsua (I don't have one of the required Cyrillic letters) or sth like that Chechnya is also sth diffefent, I think connected with "Nakh" Ingushetia is Ğalğai (ГІалгıай).... Karabakh is Artsakh (Արցախ) and funny enough the Azeri name Qarabağ is again the similar one to English So yeah, most places in the Caucasus have different names in English apart from their native ones

[@irada6980]

also it’s really weird that the word “Armenia” has a turkic meaning “Ar” meaning “brave” and “men” men. and the “Arsak” name they gave to Karabakh is “Ar” brave and saks are turkic tribes that migrated to current day Azerbaijan. Wondering if that’s just a coincidence

[@irada6980]

also, they named Karabakh Arsak after the occupation(correct me if i’m wrong)

[@somedudestolemyname]

@@irada6980 you claim to respect armenian history but appropriate to this level? Artsakh (from Ardakh) is name that King Argishti I gave to the region after his successful expedition, it is the most highly attested name to this region in history when you take into consideration its cognates among Greek and Persian history, named "Orchistene" "Karabakh" took its place after turk migrations which were sponsored by arabs and persians, Karabakh doesn't even make sense for a name in the region, nothing about Artsakh says "black garden", it is a very beautiful region with lush green forests, nothing about it is "black". There is a theory that Kharabakh is Old Azari Iranian name. not a turkic one. it translates to "Large Garden", which makes more sense but its still pretty questionable the people colloquially call it karabakh by habit of soviet education, but this has changed in Armenia for quite a while now.

[@irada6980]

@@somedudestolemyname i’m not talking ab whether it makes sense or not(which it does, because there are high trees and their shadow makes there “black”) + this is one of the theories. you have changed the name of the region after the occupation, it has been called Karabakh for centuries, even in the documents of Russian Empire. Arsak is a new name you gave to Karabakh

[@gevorgvanarmenie9788]

@@irada6980 Artsakh is not a new name... When will you azeris actually read history before your Turkic people entered the region... I know you don't care, but read it for once...

[@NeroPiroman]

Ararat is allso a name of the mountain across the border in turkey where alegedly noas arck stoped

[@420greatestqueen]

Which is historically Armenia

[@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES]

@@420greatestqueen mars and jupiter is also historical Armenian land

[@NeroPiroman]

@@420greatestqueen if we go down that path allmost every country was historicaly part of another country at some point

[@420greatestqueen]

@@NeroPiroman yeah, but it was only 100 years ago where Turks killed the Armenians near Ararat in the Armenian Genocide. That wasn't so long ago.

[@NeroPiroman]

@@420greatestqueen that is true

[@ramik81]

I'm Armenian. I like the name Armenia. It might not be the name I use when speaking Armenian. But I'm still content with it. So it doesn't bother me at all.

[@lindameg]

Thank you for your video it was informative, here is some additional information which was missing: In Armenian history we learn that the 3 tribes who resided in ancient Armenia were called Haya, Armen, Nayrian. As you mentioned the name Nayiri is used often in patriotic poems and songs. The names Hayastan means house of Hayas and Armenia comes from Armen which is one of the 3 original tribes.

[@yevaavagyan4534]

I am an Armenian and I love this

[@aymarafan7669]

@Yeva Avagyab hope you’re prepared for possibly some “interesting” comments coming your way.

[@armennazarian7097]

@@aymarafan7669 lol

[@aymarafan7669]

@@armennazarian7097 Thankfully no one is bothering her! Cool flag, the Artaxiad Dynasty very overlooked. Armenian antiquity period doesn’t get much attention at all where I’m from.

[@armennazarian7097]

@@aymarafan7669 Is that the Quechua flag on your profile?

[@aymarafan7669]

@@armennazarian7097 Yea indeed! I’ve pretty much had things for overlooked cultures and such. And so Aymara Fan kinda my mind in a nutshell. Armenia and the whole of the Caucasus region I have much love for, Georgian, Armenian, Azeri, Abkhazian, Circassian and so on! :)

[@robertgotschall1246]

Thanks for this. I once had an elementry school friend in Detroit who said he was Armenian. I had no idea where that was but after visiting an Armenian grocery store stocked with sheep’s head I concluded it was a long ways away.

[@muderschaferhund]

So this must be where Link is from since he screams HIYAH so often

[@dav1996]

Link is armenian then. Sounds legit

[@420greatestqueen]

Thank you! ❤️💙🧡🇦🇲

[@420greatestqueen]

I love being the patreom saint for Armenia. If anyone is considering being a patreon for Name Explain, do it! There’s so much extra content, and Patrick is very interactive

[@vikingsaz]

Karabakh is Azerbaijan.Azerbaijan army liberated our territory

[@420greatestqueen]

@@vikingsaz go away troll. Spread your hate elsewhere

[@vikingsaz]

@@420greatestqueen I'll tell you your problem, you're just heartbroken, you're upset that the Azerbaijani army is advancing, that's your problem

[@AlectricityYT]

@@vikingsaz if you were advancing, you wouldn't be using old pictures from 2016 to show you "captured Shusha"

[@ishouldhavetried]

There's a LARGE Armenian population in the Central Valley area of California in the US, and sometimes throughout school, we would call them Haya's. Now I know why.

[@theconqueringram5295]

It's always interesting to find out why a country is called a different name by its native people. Armenia/Hayastan has such a history!

[@JayTemple]

I agree with you, although I would say the interesting question is why we don't call them by names that resemble the names they use.

[@ArsenTech]

Greets From 🇦🇲 Armenia! Thanks

[@ArthaxtaDaVince777]

Thank you for the video, great job trying to inform the world on national names and their historical context. I would like to clear something up, as a researcher of Armenian history of many years, Hayastan is not the native name for our land. The original name of Armenia is Hay(q), Hayas(tan) was later derived from Irano-Aryan influence, (Hay) denotes the people and (s'tan) means (home of). In contrast with (Hayq), Hay refers to the people, and the (q) make the word plural, and Armenians would use this suffix to name other neighboring countries as well. Georgia as Vir(q) and Caucasian Albania was Aghwan(q). Also, the (ian) suffix to Armenian surnames is also a Persian influence, originally it was (Ouni/Douni) which means (house of). I speculate that the change happened after Armenians and Iranians co-existed for thousands of years and Iranian being the dominant civilization, influenced Armenian. Tan/Tun/Dun is pretty much the same word, and it originates from Armeno/Irano/Aryan.

[@wael4070]

Greece Finland, most of East Asian country have different name in English

[@Ganjor420]

I always thought thats a rare phenomenon since we got the same thing in germany... but by the coomments it seems actually quite common with many countrys.

[@masterimbecile]

Hayastan sounds like a central Asian country where everyone knows Kung Fu. Haaayyyyahh!!!

[@MustraOrdo]

Or is a country which stans (is a fan of) Uncle Roger: Hayaaa.

[@Chicomuradov]

Armenians are from india ,. Same language same people !!!

[@Chris-fc2ce]

@@Chicomuradov 😄😄😄 what a story. You're probably azeri😄 same language 😄😄do you know any of that languages? idiot

[@Chicomuradov]

@@Chris-fc2ce idiots are hayastan people who they say they are local of caucusus , armenia is fake country , you can check

[@armennazarian7097]

@@Chicomuradov No offense, you're a fucking idiot.

[@royxeph_arcanex]

While you're at the fad of obscure country names in languages, in Hebrew we call France and Spain Tsarfat and Sfarad respectively, and as far as I know no other language (not even ones related to Hebrew, like Arabic) even remotely calls them this way. Sounds like an idea for a video or at least part of one 😃

[@a1moshe]

thank you for explaining the Armenian history! the turkic people want to destroy our history so these videos are very important :)

[@Elnur05282]

you will destroy your own history by hatred against turkic people

[@GD-bm1bu]

They took what belongs to them KARABAĞ

[@Shaunt1]

Good one.

[@RJStockton]

1:40 Anybody else notice how the -stan countries together look like a mushroom cloud?

[@zeminoid]

Just like Hellas is called the Greece root almost everywhere else.

[@noubaraghiarian8433]

In Armenian we call a Greek Hooyn and Greece Hoonastan its very close to the Arabic Yunan

[@soap_764]

Thank you making this video. A fun fact about us Armenians. We are called the Descendants of Noah since the Ark landed on Mount Ararat, and Noah’s grandson settled in the area. Armenians are considered the children of Japheth, Noah’s grandson, making us descendants of Noah. Sadly there are more Armenians outside of Armenia, like I live in the US, but I love when people bring up the uniqueness of Armenia. We are a small country with an ancient culture 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

[@mickeyrube6623]

Yeah, but isn't everybody a descendant of Noah?

[@soap_764]

@@mickeyrube6623 I mean ya Ig. I just wanted to share that fun fact, that it’s like a nickname to the Armenian people and the background to the nickname yk.

[@mickeyrube6623]

@@soap_764 Well, it is cool that Armenia is probably the only country supposedly settle so soon after the flood that is still the same group of people and culture.

[@BigYeti01]

Thats why they are just 5-10m armenians

[@paprus5972]

I'm pretty sure that the "Haya" part means "Armenian," since in armenian itself, Armenians are "Hayer"

[@BitsEUismynamelilbish]

Hay means armenian, hayreniq means country, youre right.

[@antogaming3728]

🇦🇲❤️💙🧡🇦🇲

[@jerrynickles7818]

Straight facts most ancient people on this planet Armenians

[@Incidental104]

Azerbaijan be like: History?? Ancient?? NATIVE?? What!? Also love to see a video about Azerbaijan name, the name that was stolen from Persian (Atropatene) and then later stole native lands from Armenians Naxijevan if we look at the Armenian language “Nakhchivan” is the phonetic translation from Armenian “Nakhijevan” to Azerbaijani now let’s break “Nakhijevan” down “Nax/նախ” means the prefix “Pre” or “before” “ij/իջ” means “down/south/rest” but in this context it is used as “inn” (where Persian travelers rested) “e/ե” means “‘s” (ownership marker) and “van” means the same as “burg” in Germanic languages (Hamburg, Svendborg ext.) so all put together “Nakhchivan” means “preinnsburg” the last part Persian travels passed before resting in Armenia, Gəncə (Gandzak) means “of the treasure” so someone educate them on their own history it’ll take 5 minutes not much to cover

[@Incidental104]

@Ebubekir Sıddık Yes we are the ones that brought ISIS to Artsakh yes as you saw in this video Armenian is very ancient and not fake at all

[@adalatalizada8338]

@@Incidental104 Armenia has 13 terrorist organizations and Azerbaijan has 0

[@yourssincerely3349]

www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/67707/magni-turcarum-dominatoris-imperium-per-europam-asiam-et-a-lotter Interesting fact: German mapmaker Tobias Conrad Lotter noted Yerevan (Erivan) as a part of Azerbaijan (Adirbeitzania) in 1740😂😉

[@yourssincerely3349]

Derbend is Door bond in English, does that mean English people built it? Gandja is derived from Persian Ganj - "treasure". Where is Armenian here? Nakhcivan is thought to be founded by Chechens, whose endonym is Nokchi (last one is just an assumption). How can you be so sure about history? Tell me the name of your grandmother in 6th generation. Can you?

[@adalatalizada8338]

@@yourssincerely3349 you’re the man!!!! Thank you!!

[@abidingintruth8055]

Hai=life, Ya=God, stan=land. Land of the living God.

[@goldengold8568]

Hayastan could mean "land of the modest". Haya means modesty in Arabic/Farsi/Urdu. It is also used as a feminine name.

[@armennazarian7097]

I doubt it. The Haya prefix is really really old and most likely originated in the Armenian Highland sometime before 2000 BCE.

[@goldengold8568]

@@armennazarian7097 Oh so it is a prefix. Yeah It just depends on the pronunciation and the writing system used. So it could mean completely different.

[@armennazarian7097]

@@goldengold8568 Armenians would have used Cuneiform back in those times. Either that or petroglyph. Its way too old to know for sure so speculation holds more merit.

[@yodorob]

A famous bearer of the name Armen these days is Armen Keteyian, who has been a TV/sports journalist in the US.

[@soggyherman7454]

sounds like a david and goliath story

[@edwardvalivonis23]

Word Armenia is derived from arabo-turkic word Ermen'ya. It was named during Muslim rule over present day Armenian lands and prefix Stan is of Persian origin. Hay in Armenian means armenian thats why they call them country Hayastan. Similar thing is with Georgia, in georgian is Sakartvelo and it means kartvelian land. The reason why it called Georgia its named after Georgian king Giorgi Brtskhinvale were in English he is George

[@granttiss]

"Armenia" is older than Arabo-turkic languages came to the area. In Persian and Greek transcripts even back to Xenophon you can see the name being used

[@edwardvalivonis23]

@@granttiss word Armenia is not older than Arabic language. Arabic was spoken by arabs before islam spread to arab countries. What Armenia was called before christ era?

[@granttiss]

@@edwardvalivonis23 “CAME TO THE AREA” It was still called Armenia. Have you watched the video?

[@edwardvalivonis23]

@@granttiss it was called urartu?

[@granttiss]

@@edwardvalivonis23 Did you watch the video?

[@theviper1999uk]

What a horrible situation unfolding there

[@hapzititidemitiwat8325]

I think the hitties are actually called hittites, or am I mistaken?

[@varg3952]

No he mean the hattians the preindoeuropean people of region they were maybe caucasian indiginous people

[@hapzititidemitiwat8325]

@@varg3952 thank you, I did not know that

[@Jessie_Helms]

Would you do a video on “the origins of presidents names”? So like explain the origins of Washington, Lincoln, Trump, etc... last names.

[@masynbeene5485]

He already did that video.

[@TheRenegade...]

Ah yes, the main three presidents...

[@Jessie_Helms]

@@TheRenegade... the 2 most famous and the current one... so yeah

[@yes-kh3ey]

This is something similar to Finland being called Suomi in Finnish

[@turkoositerapsidi]

Fin is what skandinavians called the hunter gatherer people north of them. Norway still has an area called Finnmark in it, but the name Finnmark is much older than modern Norway. Fins called themselves as saami, but Swedes also called suomi people as fin, maybe because saami and suomi ar related people. Later when swedes had both suomi and saami people under their empire, they started to use name lapp for saami, as to distinguis these two. Lappi is suomian old name for wilderness and huntingrounds. Today skandinavias have started to use saamis own name for them, and so have many others too. But suomi ar still called by others with the name that skandinavians first used for saami.

[@Khachmlp]

Finland is the same also Artsakh is Armenia!!

[@warbei9292]

Im armenian and i learned a lot from this lol

[@armennazarian7097]

Are you in the diaspora?

[@DarthVantos]

I renamed Hayastan to Armenia in Ck3 thinking it was a glitch giving it an ARab name since they were a vassal of a muslim nation. Today i Learn.

[@fastfoodlover4963]

Great leader 876 he has so much diplomacy 😄

[@bosniencommie1202]

In serbo croatian its jarminija

[@billrobertjoe]

Armenia will win🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

[@vikingsaz]

Azerbaijan will win.We are near the Shusha and every day we libareted our lands. Azerbaijan is storng.Always you said Armenia will not give them Karabakh but we are libaret.

[@billrobertjoe]

@@vikingsaz nigga shut the hell up and eat a cinnamon roll

[@masahirosakurai8227]

@@billrobertjoe based

[@billrobertjoe]

@@masahirosakurai8227 based

[@omerfarukerol9079]

How ?

[@mappertom4662]

3:19 the Name of the First Armenien has Haik

[@talideon]

The other interesting thing about the -stan ending is that it's related etymologically to the verb 'stand' in English, and also to the verb meaning 'to be' (such as the Spanish 'estar') in many European languages.

[@gevorgvanarmenie9788]

or "stein"

[@MrMalmir]

We had same problem with Saxons,they use to call iran as Persia so in 1935 we asked all world to call us Iran,now they call us "eye-ran" instead "Iran/E-ran" . They also stopped calling our language as "Persian" they call it "farsi" as we say our language.

[@paulycoleman98]

Do Kekistan!

[@nziom]

Lol

[@edi9892]

The Kek-part is interesting...

[@gayanestuckelberger3184]

Thanks for the Video , it was really interesting even for Armenians and Im proud to be ՀԱՅ it’s mean Hay - Armenian.🇦🇲❤️ good Job 👏🏻

[@АртёмКаленд-з1х]

Are you half-jewish?

[@abc_cba]

Eastern Half of Turkey is occupied Hayastan / Greater Armenia. Western Half of Turkey was Anatolia and Southern part of Turkey is Assyria. Turks have an identity crisis. Their DNA proves it.

[@omerfarukerol9079]

And what? Who doesnt

[@abc_cba]

@@leevi0480 There's no point wasting ny time with an uneducated egalitarian fool such as you. Keep barking. I can't spend my energy on idiots like you.

[@armennazarian7097]

@@leevi0480 Yes that's why Armenia is situated to the east of Turkey, you geographically illiterate imbicile

[@armennazarian7097]

@@leevi0480 What is "Amenia"

[@armennazarian7097]

@@leevi0480 lmao you edited your comment

[@hooshikcarapeti5178]

ASK ENGLISH SPEACKING PEOPLE. PROBABLY WAS DIFFI CULT TO PRONOUNCE HAYASDAN . WHY WE ARMENIAN PEOPLE DON' T ASK ALL THIS QUESTIONS.?

[@Vermillion808]

I call it Hayastan cuz all the Armenians I know call it Hayastan lol

[@leylayetmez]

0:16 Kəlbəcər is beautiful

[@irada6980]

love my country😭🇦🇿

[@anikirakosyanarm]

Great and informative video 🇦🇲❤️

[@peoplesrepublicofliberland5606]

Hayastan, Pakistan, Kurdistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan etc...... The world is just one big Stan

[@georgeevernight2814]

In armenian: Russia-Rusastan Poland-Lehastan Aravia-Arabstan Iran-Parskastan Georgia-Vrasta Greece-Hunastan

[@x-ray-oh3134]

Ah yes, The Balklands, my favorite peninsula

[@JackDaDripper]

Well Georgia calls armenia "somxeti"

[@armennazarian7097]

Armenians call Georgia "Vrastan"

[@Elnur05282]

In Azerbaijan we call armenia - assholestan

[@LazyAndFabulous]

@@Elnur05282 I really dont know why you would hate someone based on their nationality, are you parasocial?

[@armeniancrusader301]

@@LazyAndFabulous He‘s a brainwashed Azerbaijani comment warrior , he is a soldier of the Azerbaijani Comment Warrior Army , wich is the 2nd strongest comment warrior military in the world (1st is Turkey and 2nd is Azerbaijan)

[@novembertheduck3575]

@@LazyAndFabulous Azerbaijanis and Turks hate Armenians.

[@TheRenegade...]

Why is Kartvelia/Sakartvelo called Georgia?

[@leylayetmez]

Cause there was Cartli Cakhetia im ancient Georgia

[@al_fletcher]

13 Azeris disliked this.

[@bunk_foss]

You mean Azerbaijan?

[@danny75461]

Hayastan how are you. 😂🤣😂🤣🤣

[@Amitdas-gk2it]

TY 😊

[@jafarjafarli4254]

Oldest book in Armenian is dated in 17th century. what an old country :)

[@jimmyanderson9224]

real debil comment

[@granttiss]

incorrect af wtf. that's literally not even true. Oldest mass printed book is from 17th century probably

[@jafarjafarli4254]

@@granttiss oldest is dated back to 1512, my bad

[@armennazarian7097]

Bruh they have manuscripts in the Yerevan national museum with Armenian script dating back to the 6th century. They have Armenian stone tablets written in the greek alphabet from the 5th century BCE and cuneiform tablets from 10th century BCE. please do some research.

[@seethrough_treeshrew]

8:44 The Balk-lands?

[@HuseyinzadeMehrab2000]

Հայաստան անունով երկիր պատմության ընթացքում չի եղել։ Հայ ժողովուրդը քոչվոր ժողովուրդ էր։ Հայաստանը սեփական իշխանություն է ստեղծել ադրբեջանական հողերի հաշվին. Տեսեք, սա է իրականությունը...

[@harmony5807]

😂😂😂 Yes we Armenians felt down from the moon and started to "proclaim " "ancient" Azerbaijan lands as ours😂 Do not be ignorant! Do not make world historians laugh at you Armenia is an ancient country while there was never ever an ancient Azerbaijan, you can check at any given time a world's old map and see yourself and stop livong with fairytales 😂

[@HuseyinzadeMehrab2000]

@@harmony5807 Դուք գնչուներ և քոչվորներ եք, երբեք հող չեք ունեցել։ Դուք ձեր ողջ կյանքի ընթացքում եղել եք Ռուսաստանի, Իրանի և Ֆրանսիայի ծառան և զազրելի մշակույթի արժանի ազգ եք։....!!!!!!

[@TheBlackzman]

​@@HuseyinzadeMehrab2000no, thats what happening in Greece and Turkey

[@thugimmi]

By the way, Armenian was once called „mets hayk“, which means big/great hayk…

[@ShadowLion20]

Bel the Giant? Hey, is there a connection between this historical character and Belias the Gigas from Final Fantasy XII?

[@Liphted]

Do the mystery of the name/rodney!