04-24-2013, 06:08 AM
Armayo/ Armaye does not mean 'syrian'. It is simply wrong according to dictionaries. But as you said yourselves, you should not translate using dictonaries, right? <!-- s
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Syrians, were in the beginning, when Christianity started which was mainly jews, the 'opposite' of jews. They were neighbours of Isra?l. So, Syrian became synonymous to 'gentile/pagan'. Later on, it reversed. When Syrians were mostly christians, and the same applied to Greeks, they needed other words for distinction.
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