Bakhmut
Meanings
- A city, the administrative centre of Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
- A miskrada in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, disestablished in June 2019.
- An urban hromada of Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, established in June 2019.
- A raion of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, established in 1923.
- The 2022 Battle of Bakhmut, which occurred around the city during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Ukrainian Бахму́т (Baxmút). 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. 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 and Miklosich, 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). Vasmer considers this highly unlikely. * Menges derives it from a Turkic form of the name Mähmäd ("Mohammed") (cf. Old East Slavic Бохмитъ (Boxmitŭ, “Магомет/Magomet”). Presumably related place names: Бахматівці, Bachmatówka, Bachmackie Kolonie, Bahmut.