Where does “Bashkortostan” come from?
Bashkortostan (English) comes from Bashkir Башҡортостан, from Bashkir -стан, from Persian ـِسْتَانْ, from Old Persian 𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴, from Proto-Iranian stā́nam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian stʰáHnam, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
Ancestry of “Bashkortostan”, step by step
Words derived from “Bashkortostan”