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Armenian
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic آخِر (ʔāḵir, “last; end”).
Pronunciation
Particle
ախր • (axr) (dialectal, colloquial)
- used to express opposition to a remark, often expressing a degree of exasperation, despair or frustration
- Synonyms: չէ՞ որ (čʻē? or), բայց դե (baycʻ de)
- Ախր ես քեզ ասել էի, որ իրա հետ չգնաս։ (colloquial) ― Axr es kʻez asel ēi, or ira het čʻgnas. ― But I told you not to go with him/her.
- Ասում են՝ չասեմ։ Ախր ո՞նց կարամ չասեմ։ (colloquial) ― Asum en, čʻasem. Axr o?ncʻ karam čʻasem. ― They're telling me not to say it. But how can I not say it?
1886,
Hovhannes Tumanyan,
Անբախտ վաճառականներ :
- Ես հույս ունեմ… ասենք պարտք ենք…
Բայց չէ՞ ախար մենք էլ մարդ ենք… - Es huys unem… asenkʻ partkʻ enkʻ…
Baycʻ čʻē? axar menkʻ ēl mard enkʻ… […] - I hope… let's say we're indebted…
But aren't we people too?
References
- “ախր”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “ախըր”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 64
- Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “ախար”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
- Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “ախար”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan