ախր

• ախըր (axər), ախար (axar)

Ultimately from Arabic آخِر‎ (ʔāḵir, “last; end”).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ˈɑχəɾ]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ˈɑχəɾ]

ախր • (axr) (dialectal, colloquial)

1. used to express opposition to a remark, often expressing a degree of exasperation, despair or frustration

   Synonyms: չէ՞ որ (čʿē^? or), բայց դե (baycʿ de)

   Ախր ես քեզ ասել էի, որ իրա հետ չգնաս։ (colloquial) ― Axr es kʿez asel ēi, or ira het čʿgnas. ― But I told you not to go with him/her.

   Ասում են՝ չասեմ։ Ախր ո՞նց կարամ չասեմ։ (colloquial) ― Asum en, čʿasem. Axr o^?ncʿ karam čʿasem. ― 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… asenkʿ partkʿ enkʿ…
     Baycʿ čʿē^? axar menkʿ ēl mard enkʿ… […]

     I hope… let's say we're indebted…
     But aren't we people too?

• “ախր”, in Žamanakakicʿ hayocʿ lezvi bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), “ախըր”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 64
• Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1944–1945), “ախար”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “ախար”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan