Persian
names are used in the country of Iran, in southwestern Asia, which is part of the Muslim world. See also
about Iranian names.
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ABUJA آبوجا (Settlement) Western African, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Turkish, UrduFrom
Abu-Ja, a nickname of 19th-century monarch Abubakar Jatau (sometimes referred to as "Abu"), who founded what is now the city of Abuja in 1828. By some accounts, he was described as having fair skin, which possibly earned him the nickname
Ja meaning "red" in Hausa...
[more] ALMATI آلماتی (Settlement) Kazakh, Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Georgian, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Tajik, Urdu, UzbekForm of
ALMATY as well as an alternate transcription of
ALMATY.
ANKARA آنکارا (Settlement) Turkish, Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkmen, UkrainianDerived from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα
(ánkura) meaning "anchor, hook". This is the name of the capital city of
Turkey.
ARABESTAN عربستان (Country & Region) PersianFrom Persian عرب
(arab) meaning "Arab" combined with the suffix -ستان
(-stân) meaning "land of". This is the Persian name for both the Arabian Peninsula and Saudi Arabia (used as a shortened form of عربستان سعودی
(Arabestân-e Sa'udi), the full Persian name for the country).
BAKU باکو (Settlement) Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, UyghurFrom Azerbaijani
Bakı from Persian باکو
(baku), which is of uncertain meaning. One popular etymology suggests that it means "wind-pounded city" from Persian باد
(bad) meaning "wind" and کوبیدن
(kubidan) meaning "to pound, to beat" (given in reference to the area's storms and high winds)...
[more] BALI بالی (Political Subdivision & Island) Indonesian, Balinese, Acehnese, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Latvian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, UzbekDerived from Sanskrit बलि
(bali) meaning "offering, tribute". This is the name of an island and province in Indonesia.
BANDUNG باندونگ (Settlement) Indonesian, Sundanese, Acehnese, Balinese, Banjar, Malay, Minangkabau, Albanian, Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, UzbekFrom Indonesian
bendung or
bendungan meaning "dam, dike", used to refer to the area in relation to the nearby Citarum River. Local sources also relate the name to the phrase
Nga-Bandung-an Banda Indung, which is considered sacred in Sundanese culture...
[more] BISHKEK بیشکک (Settlement) Kyrgyz, Armenian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, English, Hindi, Indonesian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian, Uyghur, UzbekMeaning uncertain. One theory suggests that it comes from a word meaning "whorl, whisk" in Kyrgyz, referring to a tool used to prepare kumis (a traditional dairy product). It could also mean "five heights" from Kyrgyz беш
(besh) meaning "five" and бийик
(biyik) meaning "tall, high", or it could mean "five chiefs" from беш
(besh) meaning "five" and the Turkish title
beg meaning "chieftain, master"...
[more] BOLGHARESTAN بلغارستان (Country) PersianFrom Persian بلغار
(bolghar) meaning "Bulgarian" combined with the suffix ستان
(stan) meaning "land of". This is the Persian name for
Bulgaria.
BUSAN بوسان (Settlement) Korean, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, TurkishFrom Sino-Korean 釜山
(Busan) meaning "cauldron mountain" from 釜
(bu) meaning "cauldron, pot, kettle" and 山
(san) meaning "mountain". This is the name of a city in South Korea.
BUTAN بوتان (Country) Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Dhivehi, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Maltese, Mongolian, Persian, Russian, Slovene, Turkmen, Ukrainian, UyghurForm of
BHUTAN.
CHECHENISTAN چچنستان (Political Subdivision) PersianFrom Persian چچن
(čečen) meaning "Chechen" and the suffix ـستان
(-stân) meaning "land of". This is a Persian name for
Chechnya.
CHENGDU چنگدو (Settlement) Chinese, Afrikaans, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Filipino, TagalogFrom Chinese 成
(chéng) meaning "completed, finished, succeeded" and 都
(dū) meaning "capital city, large city", supposedly named during the city's founding by the ninth king of the Kaiming dyntasty of the ancient state of Shu...
[more] CHERAGH چراغ (Settlement) PersianThis is the name of a village in Lorestan Province in western Iran. This is also used as a place name element (first or last) in other villages across Iran....
[more] DAKA داکا (Settlement) Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, Georgian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kurdish, Macedonian, Persian, Serbian, Slovene, TajikForm of
DHAKA.
HAVANA هاوانا (Settlement) Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Georgian, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, UrduFrom Spanish
Habana, which is derived from
Habaguanex, the name of a Taíno chief who controlled the area. This is the name of the capital city of Cuba.
ISLAMABAD اسلامآباد (Settlement) Afrikaans, Armenian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, UyghurFrom Urdu اسلام آباد
(Islām ābād) meaning "city of Islam" from the name of the religion of Islam and Urdu آباد
(ābād) meaning "inhabited place, city". This is the name of the capital city of Pakistan.
ISLAND ایسلند (Country & Island) Bosnian, Breton, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, German, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Serbian, Slovak, SwedishForm of
ICELAND.
JAKARTA جاکارتا (Settlement) Indonesian, Acehnese, Balinese, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Mongolian, Persian, Romanian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Turkmen, Urdu, UzbekFrom Sanskrit जयकर्त
(jayakarta) meaning "that which causes victory", from जय
(jayá) meaning "victory, triumph" combined with कृत
(kṛtá) meaning "done, made, accomplished"...
[more] JOHOR جوهور (Political Subdivision) Malay, Indonesian, Acehnese, Banjar, Javanese, Minangkabau, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, TagalogFrom Arabic جَوْهَر
(jawhar) meaning "jewel, precious stone", ultimately from Persian جوهر
(jowhar). This is the name of a state in southern Malaysia.
KALIMANTAN کالیمانتان (Political Subdivision, Island & Region) Indonesian, Acehnese, Balinese, Banjar, Buginese, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, UzbekMeans "burning weather (island)" from Sanskrit काल
(kālá) meaning "time, season" and क्वथन
(kvathana) meaning "boiling, churning". This is the name of the Indonesian portion of the island of
Borneo, though it is used to refer to the entire island in Indonesian...
[more] KASHIWA کاشیوا (Settlement) Japanese, Arabic, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, UrduFrom Japanese 柏
(kashiwa) meaning "oak". This is the name of a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
KATMANDU کاتماندو (Settlement) Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, UzbekForm of
KATHMANDU.
KAZAN کازان (Settlement) Tatar, Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Ingush, Japanese, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lezgin, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, YakutProbably from Turkic
qazan meaning "kettle, cauldron". This is the name of the capital city of
Tatarstan.
KRABI کرابی (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Thai, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, UrduMeans "sword" in Thai. This is the name of a province and city in southern Thailand.
KUALA TERENGGANU کوالا ترنگگانو (Settlement) Malay, Indonesian, Banjar, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, TurkishFrom Malay
kuala meaning "confluence" combined with
TERENGGANU. This is the name of a city in Malaysia that serves as the capital of the state of Terengganu.
KUBA کوبا (Country & Island) Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Mongolian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uyghur, UzbekForm of
CUBA.
KUCHING کوچینگ (Settlement) Malay, Indonesian, Banjar, Armenian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Indian, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, UzbekProbably either derived from Malay
kucing meaning "cat" or from
Cochin (or Kochi), the name of a city in India. Other theories suggest that the name comes from Malay
mata kucing, the name of a type of fruit, or from Chinese 古
(gǔ) meaning "old, ancient" combined with 井
(jǐng) meaning "well, pit"...
[more] LAMPUNG لامپونگ (Political Subdivision) Indonesian, Acehnese, Balinese, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, UrduFrom the name of a 7th-century kingdom, Tolang Pohwang, which was derived from Lampungese
to meaning "people" and
Lang Pohwang, an old name for Lampung of uncertain origin. This is the name of an Indonesian province in southern Sumatra.
LHASA لهاسا (Settlement) Tibetan, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bhutanese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Malay, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Turkish, UrduFrom Tibetan ལྷ་ས
(lha sa) meaning "land of gods", derived from ལྷ
(lha) meaning "deity, god" and ས
(sa) meaning "land, earth". Alternatively, it may have been an alteration of Old Tibetan ར་ས
(ra sa) meaning "land of goats" or "fortified land" from ར
(ra) meaning "goat" or "enclosure" and ས
(sa) meaning "land, earth"...
[more] MADAGASKAR ماداگاسکار (Country & Island) Afrikaans, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, UzbekForm of
MADAGASCAR.
MADRID مادرید (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Spanish, Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, UzbekFrom the older name
Magerit, which is of uncertain meaning and origin. It may be derived from Arabic اَلْمَجْرِيط
(al-majrīṭ) meaning "source of water", from Latin
matrix meaning "mother, source, origin (of rivers)", or from Celtic
mageto ritu meaning "great bridge"...
[more] MAJARESTAN مجارستان (Country) PersianFrom Persian مجار
(majâr) meaning "Hungrian" combined with the suffix ستان
(stan) meaning "land of". This is the Persian name for
Hungary.
MAKASAR ماکاسار (Settlement) Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Greek, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, UrduForm of
MAKASSAR.
MALI مالی (Country) Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, UzbekFrom the name of the Mali Empire, which was derived from Mandinka or Bambara
mali meaning "hippopotamus" or "the place where the king lives". This is the name of a landlocked country in West Africa.
MINSK مینسک (Settlement) Belarusian, Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indian, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, UzbekFrom Old East Slavic Мѣньскъ
(Měnĭskŭ), which was derived from a river named Men. This is the name of the capital city of Belarus.
MOGHOLESTAN مغولستان (Country, Political Subdivision & Region) PersianFrom Persian مغول
(moğul) meaning "Mongol, Mongolian" combined with the suffix ستان
(stân) meaning "land of". This is the Persian name for
Mongolia.
NAMIBIA نامیبیا (Country) Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Danish, English, Finnish, Georgian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, UrduFrom the name of the Namib Desert, derived from Khoekhoe
namib meaning "desert" or "vast place". This is the name of a country in southern Africa.
NAMIBIYA نامیبیا (Country) Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Indian, Hindi, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Persian, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian, UzbekForm of
NAMIBIA.
NAZRAN نزران (Settlement) Russian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Norwegian, Ossetian, Portuguese, Persian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, UzbekFrom Ingush Наьсаре
(Nasare) possibly from Нясара
(Nyasara), supposedly the name of the first person to settle in the region. This is the name of a town in Ingushetia that served as the republic's capital until 2000.
OSETIYA اوستیا (Region) Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Persian, Azerbaijani, KoreanBulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Persian, Azerbaijani, and Korean form of
OSSETIA.
PADANG پادنگ (Settlement) Indonesian, Minangkabau, Acehnese, Balinese, Javanese, Malay, Sundanese, Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, UzbekMeans "field, plain" in Indonesian. This is the name of the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Sumatra.
PAHANG پاهانگ (Political Subdivision & River) Malay, Indonesian, Banjar, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, UrduUncertain, possibly from
mahang, the Malay name for a type of tree native to the area (genus Macaranga), or from Khmer ប៉ាហាំង
(paahang) meaning "tin". This is the name of a Malaysian state as well as a river that flows through the region.
PANAMA پاناما (Country) Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, UzbekFrom Spanish
Panamá of uncertain meaning. It may be derived from the name of a tree commonly found in the area (genus Sterculia), from an indigenous word meaning "many butterflies", from Kuna
bannaba meaning "distant, far away", or from a Guaraní word meaning "place of many fish"...
[more] PANGASINAN پانگاسینان (Political Subdivision) Filipino, Pangasinan, Cebuano, Ilocano, Pampangan, Tagalog, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, UrduFrom the name of the Pangasinan people meaning "place of salt" or "land of salt", derived from Pangasinan
pang- meaning "for",
asin meaning "salt", and the place marker suffix
-an...
[more] PUTRAJAYA پوتراجایا (Settlement) Malay, Indonesian, Acehnese, Javanese, Minangkabau, English, Afrikaans, Armenian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indian, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Filipino, Tagalog, TurkishDerived from Malay
putra or
putera meaning "prince", ultimately from Sanskrit पुत्र
(putra), and
jaya meaning "success, victory", ultimately from Sanskrit जय
(jaya)...
[more] QATAR قطر (Country) Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Urdu, Uyghur, UzbekFrom
Catharrei, the name given to the inhabitants of region by Roman writer Pliny the Elder, which may have been based on the name of a local settlement. The name
Catara was later used by Greek astronomer Ptolemy to refer to the peninsula, which was eventually transmitted into Arabic...
[more] RIGA ریگا (Settlement) Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur, UzbekFrom Latvian
Rīga, origin disputed. It may be derived from Livonian
ringa meaning "loop", referring to an ancient harbor formed by the tributary loop of the Daugava river, from
Riege, the German name of the Rīdzene (a tributary of the Daugava), or from Latvian
rija meaning "threshing barn"...
[more] SABAH صباح (Political Subdivision) Malay, Indonesian, Acehnese, Banjar, Javanese, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Indian, Hindi, Hungarian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, UrduOf uncertain meaning, possibly from the name of the saba banana (a cultivar originally from the Philippines), which comes from a Visayan word meaning "loud, noisy". Other theories suggest that it is derived from a Brunei Malay word meaning "upstream, northerly", from Malay
sabak referring to a place where palm sugar is extracted, or from Arabic صباح
(sabah) meaning "morning"...
[more] SAKHA ساخا (Political Subdivision) Yakut, Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Danish, English, French, Georgian, Hindi, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, UrduFrom the name of the Sakha (Yakut) people, which is derived from Turkic
jaka meaning "collar, edge". This is the name of a Russian federal republic also referred to as
Yakutia.
SARAWAK ساراواک (Political Subdivision) Malay, Indonesian, Acehnese, Banjar, Javanese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, UrduProbably from Sarawak Malay
serawak or
serewa meaning "antimony". This is the name of a state in eastern Malaysia.
SATUN ساتون (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Thai, Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Lao, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian, UrduDerived from Malay
sentul meaning "santol" (a type of tropical fruit). This is the name of a province and city in southern Thailand.
SERBESTAN صربستان (Country) PersianFrom Persian صرب
(serb) meaning "Serb, Serbian" combined with the suffix ستان
(stan) meaning "land of". This is the Persian name for
Serbia.
SHANGHAI شانگهای (Settlement) Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Swedish, Filipino, TagalogFrom Chinese 上
(shàng) meaning "above, top, upper" and 海
(hǎi) meaning "sea, ocean"...
[more] SICHUAN سیچوآن (Political Subdivision) Chinese, Afrikaans, Armenian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Indian, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Urdu, UzbekMeans "four rivers" in Chinese, from 四
(sì) meaning "four" and 川
(chuān) meaning "river, stream". This is the name of a Chinese province.
SUKHUMI سوخومی (Settlement) Arabic, Belarusian, Chechen, Danish, English, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Tajik, UkrainianFrom Georgian სოხუმი
(soxumi), which is of uncertain origin. It may be from Georgian ციხე
(cixe) meaning "fortress" combined with the suffix ომი
(-omi) denoting a geographical location or from Svan ცხუმ
(cxum) meaning "hornbeam"...
[more] SULU سولو (Political Subdivision, Region & Body of Water) Filipino, Cebuano, Ilocano, Pampangan, Tagalog, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Chinese, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, UzbekFrom
Suluk, the Malay name for the Tausug people, in turn derived from Tausug
Tau Sūg meaning "people of the current", from
tau meaning "man, person" and
sūg meaning "(sea) current, flow of water"...
[more] SUMATRA سوماترا (Political Subdivision & Island) Indonesian, Acehnese, Balinese, Banjar, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, UzbekFrom Sanskrit समुद्र
(samudrá) meaning "sea, ocean". This is the name of an island in
Indonesia as well as three Indonesian provinces.
SURABAYA سورابایا (Settlement) Indonesian, Javanese, Acehnese, Balinese, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, UzbekFrom Javanese ꦯꦸꦫꦧꦪ
(shurabaya), derived from ꦯꦸꦫ
(shura) meaning "white shark" and ꦧꦪ
(baya) meaning "crocodile". The name comes from 12th-century Javanese monarch Jayabaya, who supposedly foresaw a fight between a white shark and crocodile (which might have been a prediction of the Mongol invasion of Java in the late 13th century)...
[more] SURINAM سورینام (Country) Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dhivehi, English, Hindi, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur, UzbekEnglish variant of
SURINAME as well as the standard name for the country in several languages.
TIANJIN تیانجین (Settlement) Chinese, Arabic, Afrikaans, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Indian, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Filipino, TagalogFrom Chinese 天
(tiān) meaning "sky, heaven" and 津
(jīn) meaning "ferry, ford". This is the name of a city in China.
TRANG ترانگ (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Thai, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, UrduEither from Malay
terang meaning "bright, light, clear" or from Sanskrit तरंग
(taraṃga) meaning "wave, ripple". This is the name of a province and city in southern Thailand.
TUNES تونس (Country & Settlement) PersianPersian form of
TUNIS, referring to both the country and city.
YALA یالا (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Thai, Malay, Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, UrduDerived from Malay
jala meaning "net", ultimately from Sanskrit जाल
(jala). This is the name of a province in southern Thailand as well as the region's capital city.
YAMAN یمن (Country) Arabic, Chechen, Dhivehi, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Persian, Tajik, Tatar, Urdu, UzbekForm of
YEMEN. In Arabic, it is usually written with the definite article: اليمن
(al-Yaman).
YANGON یانگون (Settlement) Burmese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Tagalog, Turkish, UzbekMeans "end of strife" in Burmese, from ရန်
(yan) meaning "enemy, danger" or "quarrel" combined with ကုန်
(gon) meaning "to run out, end". This is the name of the largest city in Myanmar (Burma), which served as the country's capital until 2006...
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