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

• IPA^(key): [æhˈvɒːz]
• (Dialectal) IPA^(key): /æhˈwɒːz/

Proper noun

1. Ahvaz, a major city is southwestern Iran and the capital of Khuzestan province.

Derived terms

• اهوازی (ahvâzi, “Ahvazi”)