tanuter

Tanuter ({{langx|xcl|տանուտէր}}, literally house + lord) was the head of an Armenian nakharar house in ancient and medieval Armenia; the term is equivalent to the Persian arbab.{{Cite book |last=Bournoutian |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cb9aDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Tanuter%22+-wikipedia+armenian&pg=PT107 |title=Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900-1914 |date=2018-05-15 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-06260-2 |pages=62 |language=en}} Prior to the Russian annexation of Eastern Armenia in 1828, the village headmen of a melikdom carried the title.