kʾpwl

Middle Persian

Etymology

Unknown. See (kābul / kâbol) for more.

Proper noun

kʾpwl • (/kābul/)

Kabul
- 8th century, “Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr [Provincial Capitals of Iran]”, in Parsig Database, published 2020, kābul:
  PWN kwst' nym-lwc štr'stʾn Y kʾpwl ʾltšyl Y spndyʾtʾn krt YKOYMWNyt
  /pad kust nēm-rōz šahrestān ī kābul ardašīr ī spandyādān kard ēstēd./
  In the quarter of the south, Artaxšaθra son of Spǝṇtōδāta built the city of Kabul.
  (transcribed from Book Pahlavi)

Derived terms

kʾpwlik' (/⁠kābulīg⁠/, “Kabuli, Kabulese”)

Descendants

Classical Persian: کَابُل (kābul)
- Tajik: Кобул (Kobul)
- → Afrikaans: Kaboel
- → Arabic: كَابُل (kābul)
- → Assamese: কাবুল (kabul)
- → Bengali: কাবুল (kabul)
- → Catalan: Kabul
- → Czech: Kábul
- → Dutch: Kaboel
- → English: Kabul
- → Esperanto: Kabulo
- → Estonian: Kabul
- → French: Kaboul
- → German: Kabul
- → Gujarati: કાબુલ (kābul)
- → Hindi: काबुल (kābul)
- → Korean: 카불 (kabul)
- → Kyrgyz: Кабул (Kabul)
- → Macedonian: Кабул (Kabul)
- → Polish: Kabul
- → Russian: Кабу́л (Kabúl)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Kabul
- → Slovak: Kábul
- → Spanish: Kabul
- → Swedish: Kabul
- → Ukrainian: Кабу́л (Kabúl)
- → Urdu: کابُل (kābul)

Further reading

G. Cereti, Carlo (1995), The Zand ī Wahman Yasn:A Zoroastrian Apocalypse (Serie Orientale Roma), page 244