Surname · Armenian
Գաֆեսճյան
Գաֆեսճյան (Gafesčyan) is a surname. It is used in Armenian.
ArmenianWritten in Armenian script. In English: Gafesçyan.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Գաֆեսճյան goes back to a word meaning “wireworker; maker or seller of birdcages or lattices.”
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How it developed
Built from Ottoman Turkish قفسجی (kafesci, “wireworker; maker or seller of birdcages or lattices”) + Armenian -յան.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Գաֆեսճյան’s family of names
In Armenian usage, Գաֆեսճյան as a surname has a transliteration in Gafesçyan. In Armenian usage, Գաֆեսճյան as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Gafesčyan. In Armenian usage, Գաֆեսճյան as a surname has a transliteration in Гафесчян.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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