آباد

/ʔaː.ˈbaːd/
FARSÇA → TR

Tanım

•inhabitable · inhabited · populous

Etimoloji

Inherited from Middle Persian ʾp̄ʾt' (ābād, “populous, thriving, prosperous”). Per Lubotsky, from Proto-Iranian *āpāta-, from *paH-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *paH-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”), whence also پاییدن (pāyīdan /pâyidan). Compare also Old Armenian ապատ (apat), -ապատ (-apat) and անապատ (anapat), which are Iranian borrowings. Commonly compared to Sanskrit…