AKRAVOU KAR—Crow's Rock or Rock of Van. The cave where Pokr Mher is confined.
APPO JAN—A friendly form of address, literally meaning "Brother, my soul."
AZNAHOUR—Giant, brave man. (Azn: race; hour/hur: fire. A man of fiery race.)
AZNANTZORDY—People belonging to a race of brave warriors of noble birth.
AZNAVOUR—Derived from Aznahour: giant, brave man.
BABIG—An affectionate appellation: "Dear elderly father."
BGHNTZEH KAGHAK —Copper City. A mythical city.
CHAN—An affectionate, friendly form of addressing. Literal meaning: "(my) soul."
CHOCHANTZ DOUN—The House of Grandees.
DEGHTZOUN DZAM—Golden Locks.
DEV—Evil earthly beings or evil spirits in Armenian mythology, endowed with supernatural strength, stamina.
GATNAGHBIUR (Gatn-aghbiur)— Milky fountain, in literal translation, famous for its water of supernatural properties.
GATNOV AGHBIUR—Same as Gatnaghbiur.
HALAL (Arabic)—Rightful, lawful, legitimate.
HALVOR—A dialectal term used for addressing, with a sense of veneration, gray-haired, elderly men.
HARAM (Arabic)—Unlawful, dishonest.
HARISSA—A thick porridge of lamb's meat and wheat served to those attending a memorial service.
HERAHOD—A reverential form of addressing a close kin who nurtures fatherly care and affection.
JAN (Persian)—Same as Chan.
KAMY—Wind: one of the forces of nature under the mythological or supernatural man's control. Metaphorically used for speed.
KATCHER [plural of kach/kaj]—In Armenian mythology, a race of mortals endowed with magic powers, such as casting, lifting spells, taking on other than human forms, etc.
KAZ or ALEP KAZ—A measure, 112 centimeters or about 3 Ms feet.
KERRY—A maternal uncle, mother's brother.
KHALIF—A word of Arabic origin, used by minstrels of the Middle East for
the word king.
KHANOUM—A word of Turkish origin, implying nobility or high social status
for women.
KHATOUN—Same as Khanoum.
KHOLBASHY—A compound word of Turkish derivation, meaning the head, the captain, of the military guard.
KOURSY—(Heat box) A large, wooden cubic frame with a solid wooden top and a brazier of embers at the bottom. The frame is covered with a large quilt. To keep warm, people sit around it, extend their feet to the brazier inside the frame and cover themselves with the quilt. The word is derived from Kiursy (Arabic): a sofa, throne.
KROGH—A scribe, a writer. A relentless, grim figure in Armenian mythology who scribes (issues) the death warrant of human beings.
MADAGH—A memorial meal, prepared from the meat of the sacrificial lamb.
MAIDAN (Arabic)—An open field for sporting games, as used in the epic.
MAMMIG—An affectionate term in which strangers address elderly and motherly women.
MELIK—A ruling master (of Arabic derivation).
MSR—An Arabic term, meaning 'Grand City,' not 'Egypt' as erroneously translated by others on the basis of a phonetic similarity between 'Mussur (Egypt) and 'Msr' (Grand City) at the eastern bend of the historic Fertile Crescent, in ancient Assyria.
NANA—An informal, friendly term in which younger people address elderly women.
PAHLEVAN—A hero, brave warrior, having attained national distinction. Firdousi used this word in his Shahnameh for identifying the national heroes, the pahlevans, of the Pahlevies.
SASSOUN [Sasun]—A dialectal word derived from the word Sassoum, by implication standing for awe, enormousness. Sassoun then would mean awesome, enormous, stupendous.
SAZ—An oriental, wooden musical instrument, with a long neck and thin copper strings played with a pick.
TARLAN—Stalwart, daring, intrepid, dauntless, falconlike.
TENDOUR (TENDOOR)—A large, hollow clay cylinder, wide at the bottom, sunken in the ground to make fire, bake flat bread, and cook food in Middle Eastern homes.
TIZ—An oriental hand measure, the span of a stretched hand, 24-25 centimeters.
TZENOV HOVAN—Voiceful Hovan. Hovan with a powerful voice.
VARDAPET—A doctor of the Armenian Church.