Where does “Qarabağ” come from?

Qarabağ (Azerbaijani) comes from Azerbaijani qara, from Proto-Turkic kara — black.

Qarabağ (Azerbaijani): Karabakh Region in the South Caucasus, in southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia

Definitions

  1. Karabakh Region in the South Caucasus, in southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia

Ancestry of “Qarabağ”, step by step

Qarabağ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Azerbaijani qara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Azerbaijaniqarablack; scary hallucination; ghost; nightmare,...
2Proto-Turkickarablack

via Azerbaijani bağ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Azerbaijanibağgarden; orchard; dacha
2Proto-Turkicbāgconnection

Words derived from “Qarabağ”

Every word from Proto-Turkic kara →Every word from Azerbaijani qara →