आबाद آباد ♣ Eng. oakum + feed

आबाद آباد ♣ Eng. oakum + feed

[ābād], adj. inhabited, settled, populated.

[←New Pers. ābād ‘inhabited, cultivated (place, settlement); prosperous’ ◄Middle Pers. ābād ‘populous, thriving, prosperous’ <+②ā- ‘near to, toward’ (♣Eng. oakum) ◄Old Pers. pāta- pp. <√pā ‘to protect’] ♣[Avestan pā- v. ‘to protect’] ♣[OIA √pā ‘to protect, keep’]

▲[PIE pā- : pə-, and pā-t- : pə-t- ‘to feed, graze, pasture’](LRC),(AHD)▼

[PIE► ⋯⋯ ►Eng. feed, fodder, food, foster] ♣[PIE► ⋯⋯ →Eng. forage, fur, pasture]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0002; (Turner, 1966) p.452; (MW, 1899) 0613, ② 0126; (Pokorny, 1959) 0787, 0839, ② 0280; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.112, ② 1.157; (MacKenzie, 1971) 001; (Horn, 1893) 0004