Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Feb. 26, 2011)

From the Word Lab
Arguri (in Russian Armenia). Here, according to tradition, Noah first planted the vine. (Argh urri, “he planted the vine.”)

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The Reader’s Handbook by E. Cobham Brewer
Legends about Noah naturally cluster around Ararat and its vicinity. The place where the patriarch planted the vine and partook to excess of the juice of the grape was formerly shown
near the village of Akhuri (Akori) or Arguri, a hamlet whose name, by popular etymology in Armenian, is supposed to mean “he (Noah) planted the vine” (arkur)? whence the modern form Arguri.
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Persia Past and Present, A Book of Travel and Research

By A. V. Williams Jackson

My Epitaph
There is no greater satisfaction than that which comes from doing one’s duty. The corollary to that is: Maintaining, and perhaps, enhancing one’s self-respect.

Daffy-nition
Friends: The few who help us bear the many.

Mindful
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable opinion of himself.

Wedding Daze
Anno: Doesn’t the bride look stunning?
Edo: Yeah, and doesn’t the groom looked stunned?

What’s in a Name?
Sagherian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, sagher (with the French e, as saghur) is defined as deaf.

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C.K. Garabed (a.k.a. Charles Kasbarian) has been active in the Armenian Church and Armenian community organizations all his life. As a writer and editor, he has been a keen observer of, and outspoken commentator on, political and social matters affecting Armenian Americans. He has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Reporter and the AGBU Literary Quarterly, “ARARAT.” For the last 30 years, Garabed has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Weekly. He produces a weekly column called “Uncle Garabed's Notebook,” in which he presents an assortment of tales, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and trivia; for the past 10 years, each column has contained a deconstruction of an Armenian surname. He believes his greatest accomplishment in life, and his contribution to the Armenian nation, has been the espousing of Aghavni, and the begetting of Antranig and Lucine.

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