Ashgabat

English

Alternative forms

• Aşgabat
• Ashkabad
• Ashkhabad (via Russian)
• Ashqabat

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkmen Aşgabat, from Classical Persian عِشْق‌آبَاد (išq-ābād, literally “city of love”), compound of عِشْق (išq, “love”) +‎ آبَاد (ābād, “city”).

Alternatively, some historians believe that the city was originally named after Ashk/Arshk, the founder of the Arsacid Dynasty, and hold that the term عِشْق (išq) was a reinterpretation influenced by folk etymology.

Proper noun

Ashgabat

2. The capital and largest city of Turkmenistan.

Translations

the capital of Turkmenistan

• Abkhaz: Ашхабад (Aŝxabad)
• Albanian: Ashgabat m, Ashgabati m (definite)
• Amharic: አሽጋባት (ʾäšgabat)
• Arabic: عَشْق آبَاد f (ʕašq ʔābād)
• Armenian: Աշգաբատ (Ašgabat), Աշխաբադ (hy) (Ašxabad)
• Assamese: আশগাবাত (axgabat)
• Asturian: Axgabat (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Aşqabad
• Bashkir: Ашхабад (Aşxabad), Ашҡабад (Aşqabad)
• Belarusian: Ашгаба́т m (Ašhabát), Ашхаба́д m (Ašxabád)
• Bengali: আশখাবাদ (bn) (aśkhabad)
• Bulgarian: Ашхаба́д m (Ašhabád)
• Burmese: အက်ရှ်ဂါဘတ် (akhrgabhat)
• Catalan: Aşgabat
• Chechen: Ашхабад (Ašxabad)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿什哈巴德 (aa³ sap⁶ haa¹ baa¹ dak¹)

  Mandarin: 阿什哈巴德 (zh) (Āshíhābādé), 阿什哈巴特 (zh) (Āshíhābātè)

• Czech: Ašchabad (cs) m
• Danish: Asjkahabad n, Asjkhabad n
• Dutch: Asjchabad (nl) n
• Erzya: Ашхабад (Ašhabad)
• Esperanto: Aŝgabato
• Estonian: Aşgabat (et), Ashabad
• Faroese: Aşgabat
• Finnish: Ašgabat (fi)
• French: Achgabat (fr) m
• Georgian: აშხაბადი (ka) (ašxabadi)
• German: Aschgabat (de) n, Aşgabat n, Aschchabat
• Greek: Ασγκαμπάτ (el) n (Asgkampát)
• Gujarati: અશ્ગાબાત (aśgābāt)
• Hebrew: אשגבאט f ('ashgabat)
• Hindi: अश्क़ाबाद m (aśqābād)
• Icelandic: Asgabat
• Indonesian: Ashgabat
• Irish: Ashgabat
• Italian: Aşgabat
• Japanese: アシガバート (ja) (Ashigabāto)
• Kabardian: Ашхабад (Ašxabad)
• Kannada: ಅಸ್ಗಾಬಾತ್ (asgābāt), ಅಶ್ಗಾಬಾತ್ (aśgābāt)
• Kazakh: Ашхабад (Aşxabad)
• Khmer: អាសហ្គាបាត (ʼaahgiəbaat)
• Korean: 아스하바트 (Aseuhabateu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: عەشقاباد ('eşqabad)

  Northern Kurdish: Aşgabat

• Kyrgyz: Ашхабад (Aşhabad)
• Lao: ອາສກາບັດ (ʼās kā bat)
• Latvian: Ašgabata f
• Lezgi: Ашхабад (Ašꭓabad)
• Lithuanian: Ašchabadas m
• Macedonian: Ашхабад m (Ašhabad)
• Malay: Ashgabat
• Malayalam: അഷ്ഗാബാദാണ് (aṣgābādāṇŭ)
• Maltese: Axgabat m
• Marathi: अश्गाबाद (aśgābād)
• Moksha: Ашгабад (Ašgabad)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ашхабад (Ašxabad)

• Nepali: अश्गाकुरा (aśgākurā), अश्गाबात (aśgābāt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Asjkhabad n

• Pashto: عشق آباد m (ešqābād)
• Persian: عشق‌آباد (fa) ('ešq-âbâd)
• Polish: Aszchabad (pl) m
• Portuguese: Ashgabat f
• Punjabi: ਅਸ਼ਗਬੱਤ (Aśagabata), ਅਸ਼ਗਾਬਾਤ (aśagābāt)
• Romanian: Așgabat (ro)
• Russian: Ашхаба́д (ru) m (Ašxabád), Ашгаба́т m (Ašgabát), Полтора́цк (ru) m (Poltoráck) (historical), Асхаба́д (ru) m (Asxabád) (historical)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ашхабад m

  Latin: Ašhabad m

• Sindhi: اشڪ آباد (āśk ābād)
• Sinhalese: ඈශ්ගැබට් (ǣśgæbaṭ)
• Slovak: Ašchabad (sk) m
• Slovene: Ašhabad m
• Spanish: Asjabad (es)
• Swedish: Asjchabad (sv) n
• Tajik: Ашхабад (Ašxabad), Ашқобод (Ašqobod), Ишқобод (Išqobod)
• Tamil: அசுகாபாத் (acukāpāt)
• Tatar: Ашкабад (Aşqabad)
• Telugu: అష్గబత్ (aṣgabat)
• Thai: อาชกาบัต (àach-gaa-bàt)
• Tibetan: ཨ་ཧྲི་ཁ་པད (a hri kha pad)
• Turkish: Aşkabat (tr)
• Turkmen: Aşgabat

  Cyrillic: Ашгабат

• Ukrainian: Ашгаба́т m (Ašhabát), Ашхаба́д m (Ašxabád)
• Urdu: اشک آباد m (aśk ābād)
• Uyghur: ئاشخاباد (ashxabad)
• Uzbek: Ashxobod
• Vietnamese: A-sơ-ga-bát
• Yakut: Ашгабат (Ašgabat)
• Yiddish: אַשגאַבאַט n (ashgabat)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Ashgabat f

1. Ashgabat (the capital city of Turkmenistan)