-abad

-abad is a suffix that forms part of many west, central and south Asian city names originally derived from the Persian language term ābād (آباد), meaning "cultivated place" (village, city, region), and commonly attached to the name of the city's founder or patron.

In the Indian subcontinent, -abads are the legacies of Persianized Muslim rulers such as the Mughals.

The suffix is most common in Iran, which contains thousands of -abads, most of them small villages. Markazi Province alone contained 44 Hoseynabads, 31 Aliabads, 23 Hajjiabads, 22 Hasanabads, and so on.[1]

Selected number of -abads
Place Country Named after
Abbottabad PakistanJames Abbott
Agrabad Bangladesh
Ahmedabad IndiaMuzaffarid sultan Ahmed Shah
Ashgabat TurkmenistanArsaces I
Aurangabad IndiaAurangzeb
Dzhafarabad Azerbaijan
Faisalabad (also known as Lyallpur)  PakistanKing Faisal of Saudi Arabia
Faizabad IndiaShia Nawabs of Awadh
Faridabad IndiaSufi saint Sheikh Farid
Firozabad IndiaFiroz Shah Mansab Dar
Fyzabad Trinidad and TobagoFaizabad, India
Ghaziabad IndiaWazir Ghazi-ud-din
Hafizabad PakistanHafiz, subject of Mughal Emperor Akbar
Hoshangabad IndiaHoshang Shah
Hyderabad IndiaAli who was known as Haydar
Hyderabad PakistanAli who was known as Haydar
Islamabad PakistanIslam
Jacobabad PakistanJohn Jacob
Jalalabad AfghanistanPir Jalala
Jamesabad PakistanH.E.M. James
Jamesabad (present-day Kot Ghulam Muhammad)  PakistanSir James Outram, 1st Baronet
Jamesabad (present-day Samaro)  Pakistan
Khorramabad Iran
Leninabad (present-day Khujand) TajikistanVladimir Lenin
Ordubad AzerbaijanTurkic ordu, "army"
Roshnabad Bangladesh
Sabirabad AzerbaijanMirza Alakbar Sabir
Sardarabad (present-day Armavir)  Armenia
Secunderabad IndiaNizam Sikandar Jah
Stalinabad (present-day Dushanbe) TajikistanJoseph Stalin
Türkmenabat TurkmenistanTurkmens
Vagharshapat ArmeniaPrince Vardges Manouk

Common -abad names

Multiple places by the same name:

See also

References
  1. Richard Bulliet (2013). Cotton, climate, and camels in early Islamic Iran: a moment in world history. Columbia University Press.


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