Ararat

Meaning

Proper Noun

• Mount Ararat, the tallest mountain of Turkey and of the entire Armenian Highland. In Armenian antiquity known as Masis, it became associated with the Biblical "Mountains of Ararat" (Genesis 8:4) at some point during the Middle Ages.
• A province (marz) of modern Armenia (country) .
• town/and/urban community [[Ararat province]] (province) Armenia (country).
• large village [[Ararat province]] (province) Armenia (country), a few miles north of the town of the same name.
• small city in the {{w (local government district) Rural City of Ararat|s/Victoria|c/Australia}}, named after a local Mount Ararat.
• (unincorporated) community Long Hill Township (township) Surry County (county) North Carolina (state) USA (country), named after the Ararat River.
• (unincorporated) community Patrick County (county) Virginia (state) USA (country), named after the Ararat River.

Origin

• From Latin Ararat, from Ancient Greek Ἀραράτ, from Ancient Hebrew אֲרָרָט, in Genesis 8:4. Corresponds to Akkadian Urarṭu, the name of the Eastern Anatolian plateau which in Classical Antiquity became known as Ἀρμενία (in Hecataeus of Miletus, ca. 476 BC).
• The place names in modern Armenia and the given name are from Armenian Արարատ.