Karabakh

English

Alternative forms

• Karabagh
• Garabagh (rare, preferred by Azerbaijanis)

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Караба́х (Karabáx), composed of Turkic *kara (“black”) and Persian باغ (bâğ, “garden”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɑːɹəˈbɑːk/

Proper noun

Karabakh

1. A geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia. It includes three regions: Highland Karabakh (present-day Nagorno-Karabakh), Lowland Karabakh (the southern Kura-steppes) and a part of Syunik.
2. (informal) Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

Translations

geographic region

• Arabic: قَرَه بَاغ f (qarah bāḡ)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَرَه بَاغ f (gara bāḡ)

• Armenian: Ղարաբաղ (Ġarabaġ)
• Azerbaijani: Qarabağ (az)
• Catalan: Karabakh m
• Czech: Karabach m
• Dutch: Karabach
• Georgian: ყარაბაღი (ka) (q̇arabaɣi)
• German: Karabach n
• Kazakh: Қарабақ (Qarabaq)
• Kyrgyz: Карабак (Karabak)
• Ottoman Turkish: قراباغ (Karabağ)
• Persian: قره‌باغ (qare-bâğ)
• Russian: Караба́х (ru) m (Karabáx)
• Spanish: Karabaj m
• Swedish: Karabach
• Tajik: Қарабоғ (Qaraboġ)
• Turkish: Karabağ (tr)
• Urdu: قَرَہ باغ m (qara bāġ)
• Uzbek: Qorabogʻ

See also

• Nagorno-Karabakh
• Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
• Artsakh