Փոստանջյան

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پوسته‌خانه (postahane, postane, post office) + ـجی (-ci) + -յան (-yan).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Փոստանջյան (Pʿostanǰyan)

  1. a surname originating as an occupation, Postanjyan, Postanjian

Declension

Further reading

  • Avetisyan, Tigran (2010), Փոստանջյան”, in V. M. Grigoryan, Ṙ. L. Uṙutyan, editors, Hayocʿ azganunneri baṙaran. Havelum aṙaǰin hratarakutʿyan [Dictionary of Armenian Surnames․ Addition to the First Edition] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: Self-published, page 401b
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