Armenian word senses marked with topical category "Armenian punctuation marks"
Parent categories: Punctuation marks, Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Symbols, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 9 word senses
- ՛ (Punctuation) Armenian emphasis mark, called շեշտ (šešt) in Armenian. Is put over the stressed vowel:; in double conjunctions (but not always)
- ՜ (Punctuation) Armenian exclamation mark
- ՝ (Punctuation) Armenian comma, used in Armenian to indicate a pause longer than a ստորակետ (storaket, “comma”) and shorter than a միջակետ (miǰaket) or վերջակետ (verǰaket, “period/full stop”).
- ՞ (Punctuation) Armenian question mark. It is placed on the stressed vowel of the word in question rather than at the end of the sentence as in English. Called պարույկ (paruyk) in Armenian.
- ՟ (Punctuation) Armenian abbreviation mark. It was placed on top of the part of the word to indicate that it was abbreviated. Called պատիվ (pativ) in Armenian.
- ։ (Punctuation) Armenian full stop or period, used to indicate the end of a sentence. Called վերջակետ (verǰaket) in Armenian.
- ֊ (Punctuation) Armenian hyphen. Called ենթամնա (entʻamna) in Armenian.
- ’ (Punctuation) Armenian apostrophe, ապաթարց (apatʻarcʻ); In literary Western Armenian, replaces reduced vowels, especially in the case of the particles կը (kə), մը (mə), չի (čʻi).
- ․ (Punctuation) the Armenian semicolon, միջակետ (miǰaket)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Armenian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5).
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