Aşgabat

Aşgabat

1. Alternative form of Ashgabat.
   • 2013, Annette Bohr, “Turkmenistan”, in Sylvana Habdank-Kołaczkowska, editor, Nations in Transit 2013: Democratization from Central Europe to Eurasia, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: Freedom House; Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 576:

     A disproportionate number of influential positions in the central government tend to go to members of Niyazov and Berdimuhamedow’s own tribe, the Ahalteke, although this is in part owing to the fact that the capital of Aşgabat is located in the Ahal Region, where Ahaltekes predominate.

     Changed from Ashgabat (in the 2010 edition).

   • 2018 May 19, Victoria Clement, “From the ABCs to the ABCs of Communism, 1930–1953”, in Learning to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914–2014, Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN:

     TSSR Narkompros was responsible for preparing 4,070 teachers by 15 July 1940, but as of August they had prepared only 2,946. The cities of Aşgabat and Krasnovodsk were singled out as being wholly unprepared.

   • 2018 August 10, “Turkmenistan”, in Patricia C. Franks, Anthony Bernier, editors, The International Directory of National Archives, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 391, column 1:

     The Central State Archive was established in 1920 in the capital of Aşgabat.

From Turkmen Aşgabat.

Aşgabat

1. Ashgabat (the capital city of Turkmenistan)

From Turkmen Aşgabat.

Aşgabat

1. Ashgabat (the capital city of Turkmenistan)

• Ashgabat

Unadapted borrowing from Turkmen Aşgabat.

• IPA^(key): /aʃ.ɡaˈbat/, /az.ɡaˈbat/, /ˈaz.ɡa.bat/
• Rhymes: -at, -azɡabat

Aşgabat

1. Ashgabat (the capital city of Turkmenistan)

Aşgabat

1. alternative spelling of Aşkabat: Ashgabat (the capital city of Turkmenistan)

Borrowed from Classical Persian عِشْق‌آبَاد (išq-ābād).

Aşgabat (Cyrillic Ашгабат)

1. Ashgabat (the capital city of Turkmenistan)