Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

On 30 January 1698, he raised French colours and took his greatest prize, an Armenian ship, the 400 ton Quedagh Merchant, which was loaded with satins, muslins, gold, silver, an incredible variety of East Indian merchandise, as well as extremely valuable silks.

After realising the captain of the taken vessel was an Englishman, Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners, but they refused, claiming that their prey was perfectly legal as Kidd was commissioned to take French ships, and that an Armenian ship counted as French if it had French passes.

Below is the conjugation of the verb to be in the present tense ( of the infinitive, if it exists, and indicative moods ), in English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Latvian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Polish, Slovenian, Hindi, Persian, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Albanian, Armenian, Irish, Ancient Attic Greek and Modern Greek.

Aside from Latin, the standard written language of medieval Europe, the populace of crusader Jerusalem communicated in vernacular forms of French and Italian ; Greek, Armenian, and even Arabic were used by Frankish settlers.

One FM station, which shifts between French, English, and Armenian, and the sole AM radio station, which broadcasts solely in Arabic, are owned by the state-owned Radio Lebanon, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Information.

Whilst the English term resembles the French marbre, most other European languages ( e. g. Spanish mármol, Italian marmo, Portuguese mármore, German, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish marmor, Armenian marmar, Dutch marmer, Polish marmur, Turkish mermer, Czech mramor and Russian мрáмор ) follow the original Greek.

The word entered English from a French word which probably derived from Italian moschea, a variant of Italian moscheta, from either Armenian mzkiṭ or Greek μασγίδιον, from Arabic masjid, meaning " place of worship " or " prostration in prayer ", from the Arabic sajada, meaning " to bow down in prayer " or " worship ", probably ultimately of Aramaic origin.

The name rose comes from French, itself from Latin rosa, which was perhaps borrowed from Oscan, from Greek ρόδον rhodon ( Aeolic βρόδον wrodon ), related to Old Persian wrd -, Avestan varəda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, Armenian vard.

A relatively small number of Bucharesters are of Greek, North American, French, Armenian, Lippovan and Italian descent.

Armenian and Georgian brandies ( always called cognacs in the era ) were considered some of the best in the world, often beating their French competitors at the International Expositions in Paris and Brussels in the early 1900s.

Similar interjections exist in other languages, such as Armenian, Hokkien Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Persian, Portuguese, and Catalan.

As such, they are the distant relations of the Belgian, Danish, Greek, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish Royal Families, and bear lineage from, amongst others, Arab, Armenian, Cuman, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, and Swedish ethnicities, as well as, according to Moroccan and Chinese officials, respectively, being directly descended from the Prophet Muhammad and Tang Dynasty Chinese Emperors.

Her talent in composition and translation is evidenced in her fine translations of the works of poets writing in French, English, Italian, Armenian, and Korean.

Likewise, it is still Wit-Rusland in Dutch, Hviderusland in Danish, Hviterussland or Kviterussland in Norwegian, Vitryssland in Swedish, Բելառուս in Armenian, Λευκορωσία in Greek, " Biélorussie " in French, " Bielorrusia " in Spanish, " Bielorrússia " in Portuguese, Valko-Venäjä in Finnish, Valgevene in Estonian, Baltkrievija in Latvian, Baltarusija in Lithuanian and Fehéroroszország in Hungarian.

In Armenian, Italian, Kurdish, Old French and a few other languages the transfer of the name from Hebrew to Jew never took place, and Hebrew is the primary identifier of the Jewish ethnicity.

Armenian poet and communist Missak Manouchian became one of the leaders of French Resistance and the commander of Manouchian Group ( the family of Charles Aznavour had supported Misak and his wife Meliné when they were in hiding ).

Spurgeon's works have been translated into many languages, including: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Castilian ( for the Argentine Republic ), Chinese, Kongo, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Gaelic, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kaffir, Karen, Lettish, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and Welsh, with a few sermons in Moon's and Braille type for the blind.

Category: French people of Armenian descent

Category: French people of Armenian descent

The Fasli, Qadimi and the Shahanshahi all ( notionally ) start each of the 30 day long months with the Sun entering a new constellation, similar to the Vedic ( Hindu ) Solar calendars as reflected in the Jyotisha ( Vedic Astrology ), and the Armenian calendar, but different from the Iranian ( Jalaali ) Calendar, the Julian Calendar, the Mayan Haab Calendar and the French Revolutionary Calendar, whose epochs of the months are fixed to the equinoxes / solstices, as are the signs of Western Astrology.

* 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2, 000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

* Camarón Day ( French Foreign Legion )

Abbadie was a knight of the Legion of Honour and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).

The French forces included Spahis, Chasseurs d ' Afrique, Foreign Legion cavalry and mounted Goumiers.

The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as " the most important director of this era ".

There are some 2, 600 French troops, which includes a unit of the French Foreign Legion, the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade, stationed in Djibouti.

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his many years of work with the organization.

* French Legion of Honor ( Chevalier of the Légion d ' honneur ) on 24 February 1986 for his UNICEF work.

He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Institute of Radio Engineers now IEEE Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal.

For his wartime work on radio the French government gave him the Legion of Honor in 1919.

The French Foreign Legion (, L. E.

The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831.

The direct reason was that foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution, so the Foreign Legion was created to allow the government a way around this restriction.

The Foreign Legion was primarily used, as part of the Armée d ' Afrique, to protect and expand the French colonial empire during the 19th century, but it also fought in almost all French wars including the Franco-Prussian War and both World Wars.

The Foreign Legion has remained an important part of the French Army, surviving three Republics, the Second French Empire, two World Wars, the rise and fall of mass conscript armies, the dismantling of the French colonial empire, and the loss of the Foreign Legion's base, Algeria.

Mary Peabody Mann served as a French instructor for a time. The school was briefly famous, and then infamous, because of his original methods.

A Big Mac combo meal with French fries and Coca-Cola served at a McDonald's in Louisvile, Kentucky.

Clausewitz served in the Rhine Campaigns ( 1793 – 1794 ) including the Siege of Mainz, when the Prussian army invaded France during the French Revolution, and served in the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1815.

During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of weeping willow trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers.

Edmund Burke, an Anglo-Irish politician who served in the British House of Commons and opposed the French Revolution, is credited as one of the founders of conservativism in Great Britain.

The British and French armies dismounted many of their cavalry regiments and used them in infantry and other roles: the Life Guards for example spent the last months of the War as a machine gun corps ; and the Australian Light Horse served as light infantry during the Gallipoli campaign.

The democratization of the American, British, and French sectors of occupied Germany ( disputed ), Austria, Italy, and the occupied Japan served as a model for the later theory of regime change.

The term restaurant is credited to the French from the 19th century, as it relates to the restorative nature of the bouillons that were once served in them.

Thomas Jefferson had " potatoes served in the French manner " at a White House dinner in 1802.

Thick-cut, or beefsteak, British chips are occasionally made from unpeeled potatoes to enhance their flavor and nutritional value and are not necessarily served as crisp as the European French fry due to their relatively high water content.

Traditionally, they are served in a cornet de frites ( French ) or frietzak / fritzak ( Dutch ), a white cardboard cone, then wrapped in paper, with a good spoonful of sauce on the top.

In French cuisine, beverages that precede a meal are called apéritifs ( literally: that opens the appetite ), and can be served with amuse-bouches ( literally: mouth amuser ).

Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.

Reflecting the divided loyalties of the time, part of the Foreign Legion joined the Free French movement while another part served the Vichy government.

' Stoverij ' is a classic Flemish meat stew, preferably made with a generous adittion of brown ' Trappist ' ( strong abbey beer ) and served with French fries.

Jambon de Paris is a wet-cured, boneless ham, which is served cold in thin slices and is a favourite of French families, especially children, to fix a quick meal.

Palazzo belonging to Tommaso Querini at 968 Cannaregio Venice that served as the French Embassy during Rousseau's period as Secretary to the Ambassador

Sartre served as a conscript in the French Army from 1929 to 1931 and he later argued in 1959 that each French person was responsible for the collective crimes during the Algerian War of Independence.

In 1939 Sartre was drafted into the French army, where he served as a meteorologist.

; 2nd ed., 1806 ), which was translated into French and served as a model for Wilhelm Adolf Becker's Gallus and Charicles.

This station is also served by international trains ( including the French TGV ) and regional trains (" TER ").