Atropatene (an ancient kingdom established by the satrap Atropates in the 4th century BC in northern Media (roughly corresponding to the modern-day region of Azerbaijan in northwestern Iran); later a satrapy of the Parthian and Sasanian empires.)
Azerbaijan (a country in the South Caucasus in Asia and Europe)
köken: Ultimately borrowed from Arabic أَذَرْبَيْجَان (ʔaḏarbayjān), from Classical Persian آذربایجان (āḏarbāyjān), from Early New Persian آذربایگان (āḏarbāygān), آذربادگان (āḏarbādgān), from Middle Persian ʾtwrpʾtkʾn (/ādurbādagān/), from the name of Atropates, the founder of the kingdom of Atropatene, from Old Persian *Ātr̥pātah (/Āturpat/, “protected by fire”).
Azerbaijan (a country in the South Caucasus in Asia and Europe)
köken: Inherited from Classical Persian آذَرْبَایْجَان (āzarbāyjān).
abАзербаиџьан
grcἈτροπατηνή
otaآذربایجان
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Etimoloji
Arabized form of Early New Persian آذَرْبَایْگَان (āḏarbāygān) / آذَرْبَادْگَان (āḏarbādgān), from Middle Persian ʾtwrpʾtkʾn (ādurbādagān), from Old Persian *Ātr̥pātah (/Āturpat/, “protected by fire”). By surface analysis, آذرباد (âzarbâd, “Atropates”) + ـگان (-gân, “relational suffix”).