Hojambaz
Hojambaz
Cyrillic Turkmen Хоҗамбаз | |
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Lebap Province | |
District | Hojambaz District |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 21,465 |
Hojambaz or Hodzhambas is a
Etymology
The name of the city is derived from Persian word "Khâjeh-Jangbâz" ("خواجهجنگباز"), consisting of two parts, "Khâjeh" ("خواجه") being a commonly used honorific title, and "Jangbâz" ("جنگباز"), meaning "warrior". The name was adopted into Turkmen as "Hoja-Jeňbaz". The name then underwent phonetic modifications, such as a change in vowel in order to adhere to Vowel harmony rules of Turkmen, becoming "Hoja-Jaňbaz", and reduction of the two subsequent "ja" syllables into one, thus becoming "Hojaňbaz", ultimately evolving to its modern form "Hojambaz".[1]
On 19th-century Russian maps of the area, the name was annotated as Cyrillic Ходжа-Джамбас (Hodzha-Dzhambas) and Ходжа-Джумбус (Khodja-Dzhumbus), and in the 1926 documents demarcating the
Economy
The city's economy is dominated by employment at the
References
- ^ a b Atanyýazow, Soltanşa (1980). Түркменистаның Географик Атларының Дүшүндиришли Сөзлүги [Explanatory Dictionary of Geographic Names in Turkmenistan]. Ashgabat: Ылым. p. 292.
- ^ Location of Hojambaz Pagta Arassalaýjy Fabrigi (Hojambaz Cotton Gin) on OpenStreetMap