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ashgabat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English

Syllables
ash-ga-bat
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The capital and largest city of Turkmenistan.

name

The Turkmenistan government.

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkmen Aşgabat, from Classical Persian عِشْقآبَاد (išq-ābād, literally “city of love”), compound of عِشْق (išq, “love”) + آبَاد (ābād, “city”). Alternatively, some historians believe that the city was originally named after Ashk/Arshk, the founder of the Arsacid Dynasty, and hold that the term عِشْق (išq) was a reinterpretation influenced by folk etymology.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Aşgabat (alternative) Ashkabad (alternative) Ashkhabad (alternative) Ashqabat (alternative)

Questions

What does ashgabat mean?
The capital and largest city of Turkmenistan.
Where does ashgabat come from?
Borrowed from Turkmen Aşgabat, from Classical Persian عِشْقآبَاد (išq-ābād, literally “city of love”), compound of عِشْق (išq, “love”) + آبَاد (ābād, “city”). Alternatively, some historians believe that the city was originally named after Ashk/Arshk, the founder of the Arsacid Dynasty, and hold that the term عِشْق (išq) was a reinterpretation influenced by folk etymology.

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