Surname · Armenian
Քարամանյան
“swarthy”
Քարամանյան (Kʻaramanyan) is a surname. It is used in Armenian.
ArmenianWritten in Armenian script. In English: Kʿaramanyan.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Քարամանյան goes back to a word meaning “swarthy.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Ottoman Turkish قرامان (Karaman) + Armenian -յան.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Քարամանյան’s family of names
In Armenian usage, Քարամանյան as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Kʻaramanyan. In Armenian usage, Քարամանյան as a surname has a transliteration in Kʿaramanyan. In Armenian usage, Քարամանյան as a surname has a transliteration in K’aramanyan.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
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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