քաղաք

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) city, town

Etymology
Probably an borrowing. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Bailey explains the Iranian words from which forms names for any "covered place": 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 etc. with further cognates in 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. He assumes a dialectal *t → l sound change in Western Iranian languages, as in Pashto. Klingenschmitt offers an alternative derivation of the Iranian terms from, with the same semantic development as in from. Note also 🇨🇬.

Alternatively, the Armenian and Iranian may be independently borrowed from, namely from , , /, less frequently written , the ancient city capital of Assyria on the Tigris, called in the Bible. The city name is rendered as 🇨🇬 in the Septuagint. Another possibility is, a loanword from.

It is often assumed 🇨🇬 is somehow connected. Further often connected with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Unconvincing native 🇨🇬 etymologies have also been proposed.

Noun

 * 1) city, town