Քելեկյան

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • Քելեքյան (Kʿelekʿyan), Քելեգյան (Kʿelegyan)
  • Քելեքեան (Kʿelekʿean), Քէլէկեան (Kʿēlēkean) traditional orthography spelling

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كلك (kelek, partly bald) + -յան (-yan).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Քելեկյան (Kʿelekyan)

  1. a surname transferred from the nickname

Declension

Descendants

  • English: Kelekian, Kelekyan, Kelegian, Kelegyan
  • Russian: Келекя́н (Kelekján)

Further reading

  • Avetisyan, Tigran (2000), Քելեքյան”, in V. M. Grigoryan, Ṙ. L. Uṙutyan, editors, Hayocʿ azganunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Surnames] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Van Aryan, →ISBN, page 355
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