Saturday, June 14, 2008

"Maral" Armenian or Kyrgyz?

Today at lunch, we had a "peaceful fight" over the origin of my name. The Kyrgyz were saying it is a Kyrgyz name and it means deer - and I was insisting that Maral is an old Armenian name and it means gazelle or deer.
I said that Kyrgyzstan stole this name from Armenia, Armenia being one of the oldest civilizations and cultures in the world and they said that Kyrgyzstan is older!!!
We laughed a lot :)))

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