Bakhmut

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. 🇨🇬.

Presumably related place names:, , ,.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: Бахму́т
 * Bulgarian: Бахму́т
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: Bahmut
 * Czech: Bachmut
 * Dutch: Bachmoet
 * Finnish: Bah’mut
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბახმუტი
 * German:
 * Greek: Μπαχμούτ
 * Japanese: バフムート
 * Korean: ^바흐무트
 * Latvian: Bahmuta
 * Lithuanian: Bachmutas
 * Macedonian: Ба́хмут
 * Marathi: बखमूट
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: Bajmut
 * Turkish: Bahmut
 * Ukrainian: