Бахмут

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaxmut]
• Hyphenation: Бах‧мут

Бахмут • (Bahmut) m (related adjective бахмутски, vocative Бахмуте)

1. Bakhmut (a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine)

• Бахму́тъ (Baxmút) – Pre-reform orthography (1918)

• Бахму́т: IPA^(key): [bɐxˈmut]
• Ба́хмут: IPA^(key): [ˈbaxmʊt] (non-standard)

Бахму́т • (Baxmút) m inan (genitive Бахму́та, related adjective бахму́тский)

1. Bakhmut (a city in Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine)

   Synonym: (1924-1992, historical but preferred by the Russian government media) Артёмовск (Artjómovsk)

Named after the nearby Bakhmutka River (aka Bakhmut River), the name of which apparently derives from the word Ukrainian бахма́т (baxmát, “pony; war-horse, pack-horse”) (cf. Russian бахма́т (baxmát) and Polish bachmat), from a Turkic language)[1]. Regarding the word бахмат (baxmat) (and its Russian and Polish cognates), linguists offer the following hypotheses:

• It is considered a borrowing from a Turkic (Crimean Tatar, or rather Nogai) language paχn at, in which it is explained (according to Lokotsch[2] and Miklosich[3], for example) as a compound word formed from Persian پهن‎ (pahn, “wide, broad”) (cf. Ottoman Turkish پهن‎ (pehn)) + at (“horse”) of Common Turkic origin (cf. Nogai at, Crimean Tatar at).[4] Vasmer considers this highly unlikely.[5]
• Menges derives it from a Turkic form of the name Mähmäd ("Mohammed")[6] (cf. Old East Slavic Бохмитъ (Boxmitŭ, “Магомет/Magomet”).[7]

• IPA^(key): [bɐxˈmut]

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• IPA^(key): [ˈbaxmʊt] (non-standard)

Бахму́т • (Baxmút) m inan (genitive Бахму́та, uncountable, related adjective бахму́тський)

1. Bakhmut (a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine)

   Synonym: (1924-1992, historical) Арте́мівськ (Artémivsʹk)

• “Бахмут”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
• Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1962–1972), “бахмат”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volume 1 (А – Ґ), issue 1–11, Winnipeg: Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, →LCCN, page 89
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “бахмат”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 128, page 11-12
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бахмат”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: ProgressVasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бахмат”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress