ախր

Armenian

Alternative forms

• ախըր (axər), ախար (axar)

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic آخِر (ʔāḵir, “last; end”).

Pronunciation

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑχəɾ/, [ɑ́χəɾ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑχəɾ/, [ɑ́χəɾ]

Particle

ախր • (axr) (dialectal, colloquial)

1. used to express opposition to a remark, often expressing a degree of exasperation, despair or frustration

   Synonyms: չէ՞ որ (čʻē^? or), բայց դե (baycʻ de)

   Ախր ես քեզ ասել էի, որ իրա հետ չգնաս։ (colloquial) ― Axr es kʻez asel ēi, or ira het čʻgnas. ― But I told you not to go with him/her.

   Ասում են՝ չասեմ։ Ախր ո՞նց կարամ չասեմ։ (colloquial) ― Asum en, čʻasem. Axr o^?ncʻ karam čʻasem. ― They're telling me not to say it. But how can I not say it?

   • 1886, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Անբախտ վաճառականներ :

     Ես հույս ունեմ… ասենք պարտք ենք…
     Բայց չէ՞ ախար մենք էլ մարդ ենք… […]

     Es huys unem… asenkʻ partkʻ enkʻ…
     Baycʻ čʻē^? axar menkʻ ēl mard enkʻ… […]

     I hope… let's say we're indebted…
     But aren't we people too?

References

• “ախր”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “ախըր”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 64
• Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “ախար”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “ախար”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan