اهواز
Persian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic أَهْوَاز (ʔahwāz), a shortened form of سُوق الْأَهْوَاز (sūq al-ʔahwāz), a calque of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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
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- (Dialectal) IPA(key): /æhˈwɒːz/
Proper noun
Derived terms
- اهوازی (ahvâzi, “Ahvazi”)