Abadi (settlement)

An abadi (Persian: آبادی, romanized: ābādī) is a term often used in Persian to describe a settlement in a rural environment, or informally as a town or city.[1][2][3] The word Abadi derives from "آباد‎, ābād", which translates to "populous, thriving, prosperous".[4]

For settlements named "Abadi", see Abadi (disambiguation).

A typical Abadi in Iran

Being a generic and an ambiguous term referring to small isolated farms, on one hand, and towns and cities, on the other hand, the statistical center of Iran uses this term in a narrower sense: 1) village (but not city); 2) farm; 3) site (such as gas stations, restaurants, mines, railway stations, etc.)[5][6][7]

References
  1. Bellew, Henry Walter (1867). A Dictionary of the Puk̲k̲h̲to Or Puk̲s̲h̲to Language, in which the Words are Traced to Their Sources in the Indian and Persian Languages. Thacker & Company. p. 321. ISBN 978-0365509110. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  2. Ashraf, Ahmad (20 August 2020) [1982]. "ĀBĀDĪ". Encyclopædia Iranica. Brill Publishers.
  3. Nyberg, H.S. (1964). A Manual of Pahlavi. Vol. 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 25. ISBN 978-3-447-01580-6. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  4. Akbar, Ali (2016) [1998]. "آباد". Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian).
  5. Balland, Daniel; Bazin, Marcel (30 August 2020). "DEH". Encyclopaedia Iranica Online.
  6. "۱۷۰۰ روستای خراسان جنوبی خالی از سکنه شده‌اند". Deutsche Welle (in Persian). 20 June 2020. Archived from the original on 21 June 2020.
  7. Manual for Census Takers [Râhnamây-e Ma'mur-e Saršomâri] (PDF). Tehran: Statistical center of Iran. 2006. pp. 59–65.

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