Quote Originally Posted by Wonderland
Ayrudzi actually means "lion's". Ayrudz means lion, and Ayrudzi is the possesive of lion.
Well I am not a native Armenian speaker so I am not going to take any hard and fast position on this. From various websites I found this as well as having had this mentioned by someone else on the forum. Of course large numbers of people saying something stupid doesn't make it clever.

Are you a native Armenian speaker as we could certainly use one of those to go over some of these things. If you are not then why are you certain this word means lion? I would like to see this corrected if it is incorrect.

The Roman historian Sallustius Crispus wrote that the Armenian [Ayrudzi - lit.
horsemen] Cavalry was "remarkable by the beauty of their horses and .

the Armenian warrior horsemen [the Ayrudzi] would continue down the many
millennia, distinguishing itself in the battlefields throughout the centuries,

Armenian army in particular the regiments of horsemen were 'remarkable by the
beauty of their horses and armor' ( Ayrudzi, literary means-the horsemen. .

( Ayrudzi, literary means-the horsemen. Horses in Armenia, since ancient times