Bakı

Appendix:Variations of "baki" Azerbaijani az: Бакы باکو باکؽ Etymology Baku is long attested under the Perso-Arabic name fa-cls بَاکُو. Early Perso-Arabic sources also referred to the city as fa-cls بَاکُوه and fa-cls بَاکُویَه,Dunlop D.M. Bennigsen A. Bosworth C.E. Historic Cities of the Islamic World Bosworth, C. Edmund Clifford Edmund Bosworth Brill Leiden & Boston 2007 http://nessia.org/files/original/7fb5287183e94fb6ea34e8c74d7f9de9.pdf 47 https://web.archive.org/web/20180920151802/http://nessia.org/files/original/7fb5287183e94fb6ea34e8c74d7f9de9.pdf 20 September 2018 all of which seem to come from a Persian name. Further etymology is unknown. A popular etymology"The origin and etymology", Bakucity.preslib.az in the 19th century considered it to be derived from Persian fa-cls بَادْکوبَه wind-pounded, compound of fa-cls بَاد + fa-cls کوب + fa-cls ـَه.http://iranchamber.com/podium/culture/020920_politicizing_linguistics.php https://web.archive.org/web/20071013212555/http://iranchamber.com/podium/culture/020920_politicizing_linguistics.php 13 October 2007 Culture & Religion on Podium: Politicizing Linguistics Reza Ordoubadian The Podium Iran Chamber Society 25 July 2009 This etymology was first proposed in the 17th century-chronicle Tarikh-e Alam-ara-ye Abbasi Tārīkh-i ʕālam-ārā-yi ʕabbāsī. Another and even less probable etymology explains the name as deriving from pal *bgkwdk' *baykōyōē, *bakkōyōē Phlv, an unattested compound of pal bg bay, bag God; lord Phlv + pal kwd kōy street, lane Phlv + pal -wyk' -ōē Phlv, meaning "God's town". It may be compared with Baghdād ("God-given") in which dād is the Old Persian word for "give". During Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet rule, the city was spelled in Cyrillic as az Бакы in Azerbaijani (while the Russian spelling was and still is ru Баку́). The modern Azerbaijani spelling, which has been in the Latin alphabet since 1991, is az Bakı. The shift from the Perso-Arabic letter az و u to Cyrillic ы and later Latin ı may be compared to that in other Azerbaijani words (e.g. az قاپو qapu in old Perso-Arabic spelling with modern Azerbaijani az qapı door), which changed in pronunciation following the development of labial harmony in the Azerbaijani language. Pronunciation az Az-baku.ogg Audio Proper noun no az capital city c/Azerbaijan Baku Declension ı no Derived terms az bakılı Bakuvian az Bakıxanov References Further reading Baku#Etymology