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Derived from the Persian word مرغاب meaning "river of the birds". Panjakent Persian پنجکند which means Five Cities. Its older name was Panj-deh (Five Villages). Kent or Kand is Iranian city or fortress. like Samarkand and Tashkand. Qurghonteppa Derived from the Persian word گرگان تپه meaning "Hills of Gurgan".
The ancient Iranians referred to everything east of the river Indus as hind. [5] [6] The word Sindh is a Persian derivative of the Sanskrit term Sindhu, meaning "river" - a reference to Indus River. [7] Southworth suggests that the name Sindhu is in turn derived from Cintu, a Dravidian word for date palm, a tree commonly found in Sindh. [8] [9]
The name "Iran", meaning "land of the Aryans", is the New Persian continuation of the old genitive plural aryānām (proto-Iranian, meaning "of the Aryans"), first attested in the Avesta as airyānąm (the text of which is composed in Avestan, an old Iranian language spoken in northeastern Greater Iran, or in what are now Afghanistan ...
Muzat River. The Muzart River ( Chinese: 木扎尔特河) or Muzat River ( Chinese: 木扎提河; [ 1] Uyghur: مۇزات دەرياسى, romanized : Muzat Deryasi) is a river in Aksu Prefecture of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, a left tributary of the Tarim River. An early 20th-century source also gives an ...
The Tigris ( / ˈtaɪɡrɪs / TY-griss; see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, before merging with the Euphrates and reaching to the Persian Gulf.
The Sanskrit word Bhārata is a vṛddhi derivation of Bharata, which was originally an epithet of Agni. The term is a verbal noun of the Sanskrit root bhr-, "to bear/to carry", with a literal meaning of to be maintained (of fire). The root bhr is cognate with the English verb to bear and Latin ferō. This term also means "one who is engaged in ...
Arab authors, realizing the pre-Islamic origins of Baghdad's name, generally looked for its roots in Middle Persian. [9] They suggested various meanings, the most common of which was "bestowed by God". [9] [11] Modern scholars generally tend to favor this etymology, [9] which views the word as a Persian compound of bagh "god" and dād "given".
Slaney: Irish meaning "river of health". Tay: Celtic river goddess Tawa (Tava, Tatha, "the silent one") [6] Tambre: From Tamaris with the same root that Tamar. Thames: Latin "Tamesis" from Brythonic meaning "dark river". The Thame and Tamar, and probably the three rivers called Tame, have a similar etymological root.