My Name – Hossep Dolatian

Useful pronunciations

Official name: Hossep Dolatian

Pronunciation: [ hoˈsep dolɑtˈjɑn]

Common mispronunciations:

First name: ˈhoʊsəp ‘hoe sup’~ ˈhɑsəp ~ hoˈsip ~ ˈhaspi ~ ˈhɪsəp ‘hyssop’ ~ hassən ~ ˈhapsəp ‘hop sup’ ~ hosəp ~ hoˈsef

Last name: doˈlɑʃən ~ doˈlɛjʃən ~ dəˈleɪʃən ~ dælˈmɛɪʃən “dalmatian” ~ ˈdalfɪn “dolphin”~ dolatiˈjɛn ~ doˈlapjəm

Name history and evolution

Fun fact, “Hossep Dolatian” isn’t my real name — it’s an awkward transliteration of the Arabicized version of my Armenian name “Hovsep Deovletian” [hofˈsep dovletˈjɑn] which itself was an Armenianiziation (?) of Semitic words. I didn’t know that “Hossep Dolatian” existed until I was 21.

My name has had quite a bit of diachronic changes — which makes the “official name” make more sense. Here’s a helpful chart 🙂

	First Name			Last Name
Gloss	(God) will increase			(the) government
Hebrew	Yosef	יוֹסֵף	Arabic	dawla(t)	دولة
Greek	Ioseph	Ιωσηφ	Persian	dowlat	دولت
			Ottoman Turkish	devlet	دولت
Armenian	Hovsep	Յովսէփ	Armenian	Deovletian	Տէօվլէթեան
Arabic	Hoseb	هوسب	Arabic	dawlatjan	دولتيان
Passport	Hossep		Passport	Dolatian