Sargis or Sarkis (Armenian: Սարգիս, Armenian pronunciation:[sɑɾˈkʰis]; Syriac: ܣܪܓܝܣ, Syriac pronunciation:[sargis]) is a male given name in both Armenian[1] and Assyrian[2] communities. The Armenian surname Sargsyan/Sarkisian is derived from this name.
Etymology
The name ultimately derived from the Latin name Sergius.
Assyrian Tradition
In the Assyrian community, the name Sargis is a common veneration to Saint Sergius who was martyred in the Syriac speaking city of Resafa,[3][4] popularizing the name in the language amongst liturgically Syriac speaking communities since at least the 4th century. The name Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܪܝ ܣܪܓܝܣ, Syriac pronunciation:[marsargis], meaning Saint Sargis, is also used for Assyrian churches in both the Assyrian homeland[5] and diaspora.[6]
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^Hanks, Patrick (2022). "Names from Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian Subcontinent". Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN9780190245115. Assyrian/Chaldean: from a Syriac equivalent of the Latin personal name Sergius (see Sergio) a Christian saint's name. Compare Sarkis American shortened form of Armenian Sargsyan or its rare variant Sargisyan. (Compare Sarkis)
^Aboud, Ibrahim George. "Religion in language policy, and the survival of Syriac". CSUSB ScholarWorks. California State University, San Bernardino. p. 30. Retrieved 8 December 2022. Despite all these developments, Syriac continued to be used by Chalcedonian rural communities in Syria until the end of the Middle Ages...To the East, in the city of Sergiopolis in the Syrian Desert, the columns' inscriptions found in the sixth century main cathedral used reversed Greek, written from right to left like Syriac