Submitted Name
SaveType Political Subdivision
Usage Russian, Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog
Scripts Дагестан(Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Mongolian Cyrillic, Serbian)
Pronounced Pron. də-gyi-STAN(Russian) da-gi-STAHN(English) da-gi-STAN(English) da-gəs-TAN(German) da-GEH-stan(Polish) [key · IPA]
Other Forms FormsDaghestan, Dagistan
Edit Status Status
Added 5/22/2016 by highexpectasians
Edited yesterday by lezginkas [revision history]
Meaning & History
Derived from Turkish dağ meaning "mountain" and the Persian suffix -ستان (-stan) meaning "land of". This is the name of a federal subject of Russia.