Бахмут

Etymology
Named after the nearby (aka Bakhmut River), the name of which apparently derives from the word  (cf. 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬), from a ). Regarding the word  (and its Russian and Polish cognates), linguists offer the following hypotheses:


 * It is considered a borrowing from a Turkic (, or rather ) language paχn at, in which it is explained (according to and, for example) as a compound word formed from  (cf. 🇨🇬) + at (“horse”) of  origin (cf. 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).  considers this highly unlikely.
 * derives it from a Turkic form of the name Mähmäd ("Mohammed") (cf. 🇨🇬.