Devekharaba was a village in the territory of the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Ellar (Kotayk, Abovyan) district, and present-day Kotayk province.

The village was inhabited by 161 Azerbaijanis in 1873, 305 in 1886, 356 in 1897 and 475 Azerbaijanis in 1914. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or ousted from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. Later, Kurds were settled in the village. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, along with the Kurds, four Azerbaijanis lived there in 1931. The village was abolished in 1967. At present, it is in ruins.

The toponym was coined by combining the words “deve” meaning “a mountain pass, a hill” and “kharaba” meaning “destroyed, demolished”.