اهواز
Appearance
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic أَهْوَاز (ʔahwāz), a shortened form of سُوق الْأَهْوَاز (sūq al-ʔahwāz), a calque of Middle Persian Hūǰestān-wāzār (literally “the market of Khuzestan”), name of a major town in Sassanian-era. The word is the broken-plural form of Middle Persian hwc (Hūz).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Dari | اهواز |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | Аҳвоз |
اهواز • (ahvâz)
Derived terms
[edit]- اهوازی (ahvâzi, “Ahvazi”)