Abadi (settlement)
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A typical Abadi in Iran
An abadi (Persian: آبادی, romanized: ābādī) is a term often used in Persian to describe a settlement in a rural environment, or informally as a town or city.[1][2][3] The word Abadi derives from "آباد, ābād", which translates to "populous, thriving, prosperous".[4]
Being a generic and an ambiguous term referring to small isolated farms, on one hand, and towns and cities, on the other hand, the statistical center of Iran uses this term in a narrower sense: 1) village (but not city); 2) farm; 3) site (such as gas stations, restaurants, mines, railway stations, etc.)[5][6][7]
References[]
- ^ Bellew, Henry Walter (1867). A Dictionary of the Puk̲k̲h̲to Or Puk̲s̲h̲to Language, in which the Words are Traced to Their Sources in the Indian and Persian Languages. Thacker & Company. p. 321. ISBN 978-0365509110. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ^ Ashraf, Ahmad (20 August 2020) [1982]. "ĀBĀDĪ". Encyclopædia Iranica. Brill Publishers.
- ^ Nyberg, H.S. (1964). A Manual of Pahlavi. 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 25. ISBN 978-3-447-01580-6. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ^ Akbar, Ali (2016) [1998]. "آباد". Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian).
- ^ Balland, Daniel; Bazin, Marcel (30 August 2020). "DEH". Encyclopaedia Iranica Online.
- ^ "۱۷۰۰ روستای خراسان جنوبی خالی از سکنه شدهاند". Deutsche Welle (in Persian). 20 June 2020.
- ^ Manual for Census Takers [Râhnamây-e Ma'mur-e Saršomâri] (PDF). Tehran: Statistical center of Iran. 2006. pp. 59–65.
See also[]
Categories:
- Types of populated places
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