Ashgabat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkmen Aşgabat, from Persian عشق‌آباد‎ ('ešq-âbâd, literally “city of love”), compound of عشق‎ ('ešq, “love”) +‎ آباد‎ (âbâd, “city”). Alternative spelling of Ashkhabad.

Proper noun

Ashgabat

1. The capital and largest city of Turkmenistan.

Alternative forms

• Aşgabat
• Ashkhabad
• Ashqabat

Translations

the capital of Turkmenistan

• Albanian: Ashgabati m
• Amharic: አሽጋባት (ʾäšgabat)
• Arabic: عَشْق آبَاد‎ f (ʕašq ʔābād), عِشْق آبَاد‎ f (ʕišq ʔābād), عَشْق آبَاد‎ f (ʕašq ʔābād), عِشْق آبَاد‎ f (ʕišq ʔābād)
• Armenian: Աշգաբատ (Ašgabat), Աշխաբադ (hy) (Ašxabad)
• Azerbaijani: Aşqabad
• Bashkir: Ашхабад (Aşxabad)
• Belarusian: Ашгаба́т m (Ašhabát), Ашхаба́д m (Ašxabád)
• Bengali: আশখাবাদ (aśkhabad)
• Bulgarian: Ашхаба́д m (Ašhabád)
• Burmese: အက်ရှ်ဂါဘတ် (akhrgabhat)
• Catalan: Aşgabat
• Chinese:

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

  Mandarin: 阿什哈巴德 (zh) (Āshíhābādé)

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

  Northern Kurdish: Aşgabat

• Kyrgyz: Ашхабад (Aşhabad)
• Latvian: Ašgabata f
• Lithuanian: Ašchabadas m
• Macedonian: Ашхабад m (Ašhabad)
• Malay: Ashgabat
• Maltese: Axgabat m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ашхабад (Ašxabad)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Asjkhabad

• Pashto: عشق آباد‎ m (ešqābād)
• Persian: عشق‌آباد‎ (fa) ('ešq-âbâd)
• Polish: Aszchabad (pl) m
• Portuguese: Ashgabat f
• Punjabi: ਅਸ਼ਗਬੱਤ (Aśagabata)
• 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

  Roman: Ašhabad m

• Sinhalese: ඈශ්ගැබට් (ǣśgæbaṭ)
• Slovak: Ašchabad (sk) m
• Slovene: Ašhabad m
• Spanish: Asjabad (es)
• Swedish: Asjchabad (sv)
• Tajik: Ашхабад (Ašxabad), Ашқобод (Ašqobod)
• Tamil: அசுகாபாத் (acukāpāt)
• Tatar: Ашкабад (Aşkabad)
• 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
• Yiddish: אַשגאַבאַט‎ n (ashgabat)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Ashgabat f

1. Ashgabat (the capital city of Turkmenistan)