Abshineh () is a village in, and the capital of,
Sangestan Rural District
Sangestan Rural District () is in the Central District of Hamadan County, Hamadan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Abshineh.
Demographics Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was ...
of the
Central District of
Hamadan County
Hamadan County () is in Hamadan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Hamadan
Hamadan ( ; , ) is a mountainous city in western Iran. It is located in the Central District of Hamadan County in Hamadan province, serving as th ...
,
Hamadan
Hamadan ( ; , ) is a mountainous city in western Iran. It is located in the Central District of Hamadan County in Hamadan province, serving as the capital of the province, county, and district. As of the 2016 Iranian census, it had a po ...
province,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
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Etymology
The name ''Ābshīneh'' is derived from Western
Middle Iranian
The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.
The Iranian language ...
''*āp-šēnag'', which ultimately comes from
Proto-Iranian
Proto-Iranian or Proto-Iranic is the reconstructed proto-language of the Iranian languages branch of Indo-European language family and thus the ancestor of the Iranian languages such as Persian, Pashto, Sogdian, Zazaki, Ossetian, Mazandara ...
''*āp-'' + ''*xšaina-'' + ''*-ka-''. The first element means "water", and the second means "shiny". Thus, the name ''Ābshīneh'' originally meant "a place where the water shines".
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 1,356 in 372 households.
The following census in 2011 counted 1,425 people in 417 households.
The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 1,429 people in 427 households.
See also
Notes
References
Populated places in Hamadan County
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