Րաֆֆի

Armenian

Etymology

Originally, the pen name of the 19th-century Armenian writer Hakob Melik-Hakobian, which he took from Arabic رَفِيع (rafīʕ, lofty), also used as a given name in Arabic and Persian.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Րաֆֆի • (Raffi)

  1. a male given name, Raffi, of chiefly Armenian diasporan usage

Declension

References

  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1948) “Ռաֆֆի”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 26) (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: University Press
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