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Ashkhabad

Ashkhabad is the alternative form of Ashgabat.

Meaning of Ashgabat

Proper noun

Ashgabat

  1. The capital and largest city of Turkmenistan.
  2. (metonymically) The Turkmenistan government.

Origin of Ashkhabad

From Russian Ашхаба́д (Ašxabád). Doublet of Ashgabat.

Questions about Ashkhabad

What is Ashkhabad the alternative form of?
Ashkhabad is the alternative form of Ashgabat.

Words near Ashkhabad in the dictionary

  1. Ashkenazizing
  2. Ashkenazocentric
  3. Ashkenormative
  4. Ashkenormativity
  5. Ashkephardi
  6. Ashkhabad
  7. Ashkharabar
  8. Ashkharhabar
  9. ashkoko
  10. ashkokos
  11. Ashkun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ashkhabad (page history and authors); Ashgabat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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