Given name · Armenian · Classical Armenian
Գարեգին
“darling, dear, having high value”
Գարեգին (Garegin) is a masculine given name from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Armenian and Old Armenian.
Armenian and Classical ArmenianWritten in Armenian script. In English: Garegin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Գարեգին goes back to a word meaning “darling, dear, having high value.”
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How it developed
Built from Old Armenian *գարի + -ա- + գին (“price, value”).
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Գարեգին’s family of names
In Armenian usage, Գարեգին has a diminutive in Գարիկ. In Old Armenian usage, Գարեգին shares a linguistic root with the Ancient Greek form Βαρύς. In Old Armenian usage, Գարեգին can be written in the Roman alphabet as GAREGIN.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Գարեգին has relatives in 3 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Գարեգին
- Garegin IICatholicoi of Armeniaborn 1951
- Garegin NzhdehArmenian politician and philosopher (1886-1955)
- Karekin ICatholicoi of Armenia (1932–1999)
- Armen GaroArmenian nationalist activist and politician (1872–1923)
- Garegin KhazhakArmenian journalist, writer, political activist, and educator1867–1915
- Garegin SrvandztiantsArmenian writer1840–1892
- Karekin II KazanjianPatriarch of Constantinople1927–1998
- Karekin I KhachadourianArmenian Patriarch of Constantinople1880–1961
- Garegin ApresovSoviet diplomat (1890-1941)
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