Chaharbagh
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Persian چهارباغ (čahârbâğ), from چهار (čahâr, “four”) + باغ (bâğ, “garden”), literally “four gardens”.
Proper noun[edit]
Chaharbagh
- Ellipsis of Chaharbagh Avenue; the Chaharbagh, Isfahan, so named because Shah Abbas the Great had bought four vineyards in the city to secure the right-of-way[1]
- A toponym:
Translations[edit]
avenue in Isfahan
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city in Iran
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district
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References[edit]
- ^ “ČAHĀRBĀḠ-E EṢFAHĀN”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, 1990