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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

阿塞拜疆

Pronunciation / Transliteration: A-sài-bài-jiāng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Azerbaijan/ˌæz.ər.baɪˈdʒɑːn/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"阿塞拜疆的首都是巴库。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A country situated at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south.

    "Baku is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan."
  2. 2

    The official language of Azerbaijan, belonging to the Turkic language family.

    "He studied Azerbaijani to better communicate with locals during his trip to the Caucasus."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The name Azerbaijan derives from Atropates, a Persian satrap of Media who ruled an area in ancient Iranian Azerbaijan. The name evolved through Middle Persian as Āturpātakān and later into New Persian as Āzarbāyjān, ultimately influenced by Arabic phonology and Turkic migration.

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