Why Do Some Country Names End With Stan?

[@NameExplain]

Hey everyone, yesterday KZbin locked this video to private for apparently having "misleading tags and/or description" which is really annoying. It's back up again but to play it safe I removed all the tags and description. However all the sources will be in this pinned comment! Words cannot express how much this annoyed me. This video was doing fantastically and in it's prime cut off from any views. Happy it's up again but all it's crucial momentum is now dead. This sucks even more as I was so happy yesterday to announce my book, only to have that all gone thanks to KZbin messing up. SOURCES AND FURTHER READING A-Z Of Countries: www.state.gov/misc/list/index.htm Countries Ending In…: www.list.goodinformationabout.com/countries-capital-city-currency-time-zone-language-calling-code/list-of-countries-country-ending-in/#Countries_ending_with_stan -stan on Etymonline: www.etymonline.com/word/-stan?ref=etymonline_crossreference Suffix Stan Explained: www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/stan.htm Here Is Why So Many Countries End In “-Stan”: www.sporcle.com/blog/2017/02/why-do-so-many-countries-end-in-stan/ England on Etymonline: www.etymonline.com/word/England Kazakhstan Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/Cossack?ref=etymonline_crossreference Kyrgyzstan: silkroadexplore.com/about-kyrgyzstan/ Pronunciation from www.forvo.com Mystery Bazaar Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

[@bordershader]

KZbin can be really pants sometimes!

[@tejasvi18joshi]

This Stan is originated from sanskrit word sthan. Sthan means land. Ancient persian or avesta is very much influenced from sanskrit. Infact the ancient persian were following the Atharva veda branch of Hinduism and later zoroastrian religion born from those practices.

[@MuhammadAli-gj6ss]

You just gave the wrong impression at the first place by showing incomplete map of Pakistan.

[@sonaruo]

Say things as is it it is not turkish IT IS MONGOLIAN

[@rupjyotimekar2104]

Name Explain...oh stan is word of persia? Who told u? It's a sanskrit word.

[@mitraabbasi5930]

In urdu we called england englistan englistan means land of english people

[@miladd237]

In Persian we say Engelestan (Land of Engelis people)

[@dreamland7078]

We almost calk every country like that ,specially countries that end with ia

[@proudmuslim5238]

no we say burtania

[@dreamland7078]

@Ell no Aamrika or Iyalaateh motahedeh which means united states. This is for persian speajers in Iran.

[@BulkyHealthyCat]

Lmao arabstan

[@zanayenkomo5507]

OK now I under-stan

[@redemptionofthebeast50]

Zanaye Nkomo *Stan is a stupid Eminem fan*

[@NAKK786]

Oo

[@TaqiChauhan]

Zanaye Nkomo xD

[@rajneeshpal8854]

Under - Stan is your private places

[@fidelcatsro6948]

hahhha

[@keep3339]

in turkish Yunanistan (Greece) Bulgaristan (Bulgaria) Sırbistan (Serbia) Gürcistan (Georgia) Ermenistan (Armenia) Suudi arabistan (Saudi Arabia) Hindistan (İndia) Hırvatistan (Croatia) Macaristan (Hungary) Moğolistan (Mongolia) end with stan too.

[@billsmart2726]

keepheal interesting! In Persian: Hungry= Majaarrestan Poland: Lahhestan Bulgaria: Bulghaarestan Armenia: Armanestan Serbia: Serbistan Georgia: Gorjestan Saudi Arabia: Arabistan Mongolia: Moghulistan

[@tejasvi18joshi]

In Indian languages Greece is called Yunan or Yavan. Turkey is called Turki or Turkee. and this stan actually originated from SaNSKRIT LANGUAGE and then came into avesta language.

[@billsmart2726]

Tejasvi Joshi in Persian Greece called Yunan as well.

[@kenal1532]

Nice info, hmmm...

[@kesorangutan6170]

Bill Smart We also use Lehistan for Poland but nowadays we call them "Polonya" which is turkified version of "Polonia" which means "land of poles" in latin.

[@ZachVanHarrisJR]

"Dear Stan" - Eminem

[@imanghane1592]

Stan=Shae tan=the name of evil 👿 Because of Illuminati they believe in Stan

[@miladd237]

@@imanghane1592 STAN is Persian Shaetan is Arabic completely different

[@Barbarosa1234]

Dear-Stan = Land of the Dear 🦌😂😂

[@mshah1193]

Stan is a Sanksrit (ancient language of India) word and it means land, place, stay. The English word "stay" is derived from "Stan"....that's why both have similar meanings.

[@briantravelman]

"Stan" means "Land" and the word in front of it is the ethnicity. So Kazakhstan means "Land of the Kazakhs". There. I just saved you guys 4.5 minutes

[@callum1651]

Thanks pal, very much appreciated

[@kensley94]

Thats why i mostly scroll in the comments first b4 watching the video

[@mikela1341]

Thanks. 😊

[@briantravelman]

LOL. You're welcome. I hate when people make 4 minute videos for something that can be explained in once sentence.

[@lenchenes]

Thanks. No need for long intro Lol

[@elimalinsky7069]

Turkmen doesn't come from the country of Turkey, but the country of Turkey comes from the Turkmen, which in turn comes from "Türk", the name used to describe all the tribes and peoples referred to as Turkic, or belonging to an ancient shared origin and homeland somewhere in the Ural mountains on the Siberian side of present day Russia. The Turkic peoples are not indigenous to Central Asia but have migrated there from north and east in Russia and Siberia beginning in the 4th to the 9th century CE. Turkey was Greek and Armenian before the arrival of the Turks beginning in the 11th century and up to the 15th century. Persian was the lingua franca of the non-Arab Muslim world, so "stan" was used even though it's a Persian and not a Turkic word. Also, the word "stan" is related to the English word "stand" or "to stand", via the shared Indo-European cognate vocabulary.

[@burakbayram7991]

Eli Malinsky Turkmen + Azerbaijani + Turkish = Oghuz (Oğuz) Turk (a branch of Turk)

[@elimalinsky7069]

Burak Bayram also known as Seljuk Turks

[@burakbayram7991]

Yes you are right. Thank you.

[@friedrichhayek8628]

Burak Bayram The languages? They are a branch of Altaic languages?

[@burakbayram7991]

Vlad s Yes they are altaic and turkic languages.

[@amir8417]

In persian language we know many countries with -stan.for example.Engelstan (England).Lahestan (Poland),Magarestan (Hungry),Arabestan (Arabia),Bolgharestan (Bolgaria),Hendustan (india),Mogholestan (Mongolia).-stan means Land or State.

[@luckyraj77777777]

Stan is a word from sanskrit not only for this 6countries most of the Europe too Asia...were Arian were living trivel too indus valley called hindustan

[@mrwersa1]

@@luckyraj77777777 It's not from Sanskrit, it's from proto-indio-iranian language.

[@BriefOutreach]

Its all originated from Sanskrit, the oldest known language.

[@mrwersa1]

​@@BriefOutreach lol

[@BriefOutreach]

@@mrwersa1Read history, google it, research and you will know...

[@vishnusukumaran2744]

In many Pak media when they narrate about India , I heard them using Hindustan always,,,such Hindustan narrative is rare in Indian media .

[@copycode2303]

Because india in urdu or hindi is Hindustan. British name the sub-continent india.

[@user-dc4bl1cu2k]

That is wrong though. Hindustan=Eastern Pakistan + Northern India.

[@copycode2303]

muslims narate hindustan only india actually india and hindustan are same words we both pakistani and punjabi sikh and bengali called india in our language urdu and hindi hindustan. so india is just a english name hindustan ! no need t o confuse like cat we called bili (in urdu and hindi )

[@SameerHameedy]

cOPy CodE no Persians and Turks use -Stan, Arabs do not use the Stan suffex

[@tideghost]

Bhārat is the proper Hindi name for India.

[@soham769]

Ancient Indian root 'stha' means to stay/situate etc. 'sthaana', derives from this root by addition of stem 'na' and means a place/land/county etc. Indian languages are kind of unique among the IE continuum in having consonants for different sounds for which other languages use same consonant. One such class of sounds is plosives. So, Indian languages have dental consonants (t, d) and also their plosive varities (th, dh). Same is true for alveolar consonants, but not material here. Since Persian does not use plosive, the sound th becomes t in Persian, and sthaana becomes stan (it also drops ending schwa, which over the years many Indian languages have also evolved to do)

[@fingernailclipper2152]

This is really difficult to under- “Stan” in the beginning. Get it?

[@best_soap641]

Fingernail Clipper Now now. Follow me please. The exit is 2 halls away.

[@best_soap641]

Prussian Eagle You may come as well.

[@best_soap641]

Prussian Eagle Do I look like the prime minister? Lol

[@lorenzomanzoni1478]

Alex Gounelas Costantinople is chinese u bad person 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠👌👌👉👉😂😂😂😢😢😢✔✔

[@best_soap641]

Gatto Grigio What? No. Did you study your history book. Constantinople is TEXAN. So many uneducated people in the world...

[@bluejacket2809]

Stan = place Staana = place (kannada) Dravidian Hindustan (India)

[@bluejacket2809]

@Александр I think only Kannada more influenced by Sanskrit, we do use more then 2 words for same meaning. And all Dravidian language related, but when it comes to writing its totally defferent. ಕನ್ನಡ(Kannada) தமிழ்(Tamil) తెలుగు(Telugu) മലയാളം(Malayalam)

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Sorry to disappoint you but Swaziland has changed its name to eSwatini.

[@SS_Nationalist]

What it means ????

[@HBKnowItAll]

Shyam S Sumbar it's it's name in its official language.

[@begaalbi7788]

stan has maybe the same meaning as LAND in german DeutschLAND - Germany GriechenLAND - Greece LettLAND - Latvia RussLAND - Russia EngLAND - England NeuseeLAND - New Zeland

[@okaro6595]

In Finnish the land is just twisted as lanti which means nothing: Englanti, Islanti. however with Thailand it is translated: Thaimaa. This caused problems to any Finns when it is used in different cases.

[@pikachu5647]

"Stan" refers to place as said, its origin is from sanskrit to be precise, "Stan" still lives in modern hindi (a sanskrit derivative language spoken mostly in northern India and Pakistan) and has the same meaning, Stan = ‌स्थान = place

[@racerhex2690]

Thank you, I learned this from KZbin and not by my Social studies in History class in middle and high school .

[@LindaengelustrupBlogspot]

I have been wondering about this a long time. THANK YOU!! =D

[@706easy]

Could have included that in Persian country names that end in -land or -ia have their suffix replaces with -stan, for example England in Persian is Englestan.

[@elijahmikhail4566]

706easy That's interesting. In Spanish, England is Inglaterra. That's the only "land" country I could think of that translates that way. I think because Finland and Iceland have newer names, they were translated to Finlandia and Islandia.

[@706easy]

Elijah Mikhail That’s interesting. In Persian Finland and Iceland are also Finland and Iceland, probably because they’re newer countries like you said or haven’t had much historic contact with our part of the world.

[@OswaldMiyake35]

706easy Seriously?

[@unclepodger]

Is India called Hindustan in modern Farsi?

[@706easy]

Uncle Podger Some people say Hindustan but the term is a bit old-fashioned. Most people just say Hend nowadays.

[@pranavathalye]

Nice video. One correction: Hindustan i.e. India doesn't mean Hindu homeland even though it is the Hindu homeland. The Hindu in Hindustan and the Hindu people comes from the Persian name for the river Indus, Hindus. So land of Indus river and people of the Indus river. Interestingly that's where the English name India originates from. Sanskrit Sindhu becomes Persian Hindu which becomes Greek Indus. Additional info: the Persian -stan also has a Sanskrit cognate -sthana. One of the Indian states is called Rajasthan, meaning land of the kings. A temple is called Devasthana, place of the Devas(gods). Place of birth is called Janmasthana. etc. There's also a German cognate -stadt which comes very often at the end of German place names. Edit: Sindhu/Hindu initially became Hindós in Greek and the H became silent during the Hellenistic period ultimately becoming the origin of the English word Indus. Thanks Kostandrea for this piece of information.

[@Ratich]

pranav athalye small correction in ancient Greek the river is called Hindós but the land is called Indía I don't know why it's different though

[@pranavathalye]

kostandrea Interesting. I didn't know that ' meant "h" in ancient Greek and was not silent like in modern Greek.

[@Ratich]

pranav athalye it went silent at around the Hellenistic period that's when most of the changes happened to the phonology of Greek eventually completing at around the 13th to 14th century at that point the spoken language was very much like modern Greek

[@ssm9119]

Well then Modern day Pakistan should be called India as Pakistan is the land of Indus.

[@ranDOm9431]

Also, the river Indus doesn't run through India, it runs through Pakistan.

[@schrodingerbracat2927]

Stan was the man with the plan who got away in a van. Now the s*** hit the fan.

[@RedMi-vs9zt]

Wow..I just found your channel. I love it☺️

[@spideraxis]

I thought it was short for "Stanley".

[@anotheraltaccofhaywire2ele872]

I thought Swaziland changed their name to eSwatini.

[@jasmimbettencourt358]

ESwatini

[@susantramer6713]

ARO571 yes, thank you!

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

Do you get upset when people refer to Myanmar as Burma or Czechia as The Czech Republic?

[@markuspark5128]

It’s eswatini btw ye

[@ferael0013]

@harris nisar They changed recently

[@ronaldoforever9677]

I was thinking about this earlier...and what ever i think the answer is similar with the one you show on this video Thanks Bro.

[@BriefOutreach]

Stan originated from Sanskrit "Sthanam"

[@srinathj2222]

Exactly! That's what I was going to say!

[@hamed6380]

no

[@srinathj2222]

@@hamed6380 yes, it did

[@hamed6380]

@@srinathj2222 We are talking about what language invented and used this word, not which language is older, right?

[@srinathj2222]

@@hamed6380 Yes

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

My favorite Stan is Kazakhstan because it's the greatest country in the world and all other countries are run by little girls.

[@p0llenp0ny]

Avery Lopez-Baines Kazakhstan is a shithole.

[@bryarch]

Says the guy with the Cuba flag as his profile photo

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I'm in the US, not Cuba. I have Cuban ancestry, hence the flag. But yes, I do agree both countries are horrible. However, I just had to make a Borat joke.

[@brayanhabidcol]

Bryan Archer you definitely didn't catch the reference...

[@disneymore7941]

Brayan Habid, exactly. Both him and p0llep0ny are complete idiots. I guess people don't know about Borat.

[@daddyleon]

There are more -stans too, within India or the other stan-nations mentioned before. Even a controversial one: East-Turkestan (a separatist colony/privince of China), home of the Uyghurs.

[@daddyleon]

Yes, indeed! Thanks :)

[@nozaakilkhanova6874]

The word Uzbek can be interpreted few ways. In Uzbek language word O’z (Uz) means your/own/that belongs to himself and word Bek means lord, king, owner. So if you put both together you will have O’ziga Bek = the owner of himself aka free person, like not a slave. So the nation is a free nation. Also we have a saying “O’ziga bek, O’ziga Khon” which stands for Uzbeks are “owner of himself, king to himself” aka free nation

[@saeidhn]

There are many provinces or geographic areas with -stan suffixes and there are many more place names that name based on what they contain. "Gol" means flower so "Golestan" means flower field. "Sarv" means Cypress tree and there is a city called "Sarvestan" because of the trees.

[@NortheastIndiaindetails]

Sthan *(Stan)* indeed means place in Hindi/Urdu And what about Hindustan

[@pegeonpera]

3:21

[@NortheastIndiaindetails]

Kaustubh Verma It doesn't mean land of the Hindus

[@pegeonpera]

But the word 'Hindustan' translates to that land of the Hindus, doesn't it?

[@uekiguy5886]

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[@otomackena7610]

Northeast India in details see the video before you comment

[@BenchFox_]

In Turkish, many unrelated countries end with -istan. India (Hindistan), Hungary (Macaristan), Bulgaria (Bulgaristan), Georgia (Gürcistan), Serbia (Sırbistan) and so on...

[@andreiferariu]

Kanal Q that's probably because Turkish borrowed some Persian etymologies and used them to fit other countries.

[@BenchFox_]

That is actually proven. Turkish did take a few words and suffixes from Persian...

[@farukdiken7521]

More than few actually

[@BenchFox_]

Yeah, it is. It's actually written as Habeşistan.

[@unclepodger]

Hindistan that sounds so wrong...

[@popzain3061]

*Stan* standard for (Land , Country, Nation, Place , Home land etc) From the Persia

[@miladd237]

Not only Persian in other Iranic languages such as Kurdish,Baloochi and others

[@adoinc9515]

Greetings from Kyrgyzstan 👋

[@quatsar9092]

Its e-swatini now

[@virgogenie4797]

Džudžan no, eSwatini is the official name now

[@officerishi6789]

Geography Now??

[@shaungordon9737]

Ain't no one gonna call it that

[@laosylucy]

Its probably going to end up like the Ivory Coast. Some people use its offical name, but most use its un offical name of the Ivory Coast

[@JWarrior_81]

Knew there would be some body to point this out. No one will call it that though other than in official documents. Like Czechia and Northern Macedonia.

[@SideNote233]

I like your through research. Came across your channel only yesterday. Love it!!

[@kingofgaming791]

SideNote same lol

[@nicosmind3]

*Thorough

[@BewegteBilderrahmen]

He doesn't research that well and actually admitted to using false facts because they were “more fun“ in his napoleon video

[@gabequezada2066]

what an excellent and informative video... Thank you

[@MrJoshuayap]

Countries that produce the signature shoes "Stan Smith"

[@quicksilvermarvel6392]

Stan Lee = Homeland of Lee ?

[@MrOligi3003]

What about Sebastian Stan? :D

[@micos3820]

Quicksilver Marvel So... China?

[@nishantsharma7436]

For all Americans... Its not even pronounced "stan" but "sthaan".... For real.. So peace out

[@MrOligi3003]

I am not american.

[@quicksilvermarvel6392]

@@nishantsharma7436 How do you Americans pronounce Kazakhstan ?

[@NameExplain]

Hey everyone, thank you all so much for the get well messages about the broken wrist. I read every one! On the mend now and hopefully no more operations!

[@graph100]

SWAZILAND IS NOW CALLED ESWATINI LOL YOU GOT DAT WRONG !!!1!!111!!!1!!!!!

[@NortheastIndiaindetails]

Where is Swedistan. Also Hindustan

[@ShahabJafarov]

Turkman means I am Turk. But you said it is come from Turkey. Actually turkic tribes come from Turkmenistan to Turkey not from Turkey to Turkmenistan

[@mqld1075]

Also Armenia is Hayastan

[@ahmedmehmood8462]

Lol shame you couldn’t say Pakistans meaning when shorting it because it would be seen as a rasict remark

[@nimash6273]

"Stan" simply means: "the land of X race,tribe, etc". it has the same meaning of the suffix "land" in some Europian countries.e.g Irland,Netherland,Poland,etc.

[@donyab.e4767]

The similarity between Hindu and Persian is no surprise as both languages are categorized as Indo-European languages. Don't fight over it. 😂 In Persian we actually add stan to many other countries, cities, areas and words. It means place of someone or sth. For instance we call England " Engelestan" , Georgia "Gorjestan" , Poland "Lahestan" and Armenia "Armanestan" and a lot more. It is even used for an orchard with same trees. A bitter orange orchard would be "Narenjestan" when Narenj is bitter orange.

[@tejasvi18joshi]

In Sanskrit Orange is called Narangi though in Hindi it is called Santra.

[@blackaryan7265]

Im from South India , Here orange and similar citrus fruits are called "Naranga" Our language is Malayalam

[@donyab.e4767]

സ: casablanca In farsi, Narenji means orange color. Narenj means bitter orange and Narengi is equal to sweet easy peeler which is a sort of tangerine).

[@user-dc4bl1cu2k]

No such language as "Hindu". It's called Hindustani with two varieties (Urdu & Hindi). Hindustan refers to the Indo-Gangitic plain.

[@Jorgejhms]

In Spanish an Orange is Naranja

[@sub7se7en]

Afghan is the historical name for the ethnic Pashtun people of Afghanistan. The two names were synonymous and interchangeable. When the Pashtuns or Afghans created a country they called it Land of the Afghans. Not sure why they chose one variant over the other. Now a days Afghan refers to citizens of Afghanistan and is not associated with only the ethnic Pashtuns anymore.

[@kamjaba372]

subseven Afghanistan is false name The original of name to my country is KHORASAN

[@stubvdrlkjhgfdsy9614]

Kamjab Afshar خراسان = افغانستان ايران تركمنستان

[@sub7se7en]

Kamjab Afshar No, it wasn't. Khorasan was never a country. Just the name of a region that has been part of many countries. Now part of khorasan is in Afghanistan and part is in Iran. Part of it may even be in Tajikistan.

[@stubvdrlkjhgfdsy9614]

subseven لا كلامك خطأ خراسان كانت جزء من ايران و افغانستان و من تركمنستان ليست تاجيکستان !!!

[@kamjaba372]

subseven but you admitt that current Afghanistan was a part of the old KHORASAN. ( the most part of that ) And in the past there was no country that called Afghanistan. This name is false. There are different people in this country and this is not only homeland of PASHTON or( Afghan) .

[@TheKapello]

Poland is also known as Lechistan (polish version is "Lechia"). In some countries (especially on the middle east) this is official name for my fatherland. There is a legend about Lech, Czech, Rus the founders of Lechia, Czechia and Russia. Poland is younger name than Lechia/Lechistan.

[@arashtabatabaie4293]

Thanks for the info. I was always wondering why we call Poland "Lahestan" in Persian. and for the record, it is pronounced "estaan" not "istan" in persian

[@monikatrajanoska9803]

What does Lechia mean? I know Poland comes from polje- field

[@wasigupitobudiarto7767]

Arash Tabatabaie in arabs/persian/turkish, greece is called "Yunanistan", since they only recognized ionian island... then after being contacted with them, my language adopted it as only "Yunani" to recognize Greek or Greece

[@wasigupitobudiarto7767]

Моника Трајаноска I heard that there were three brothers named Lech, Cek, And Rus who were origins of slavic tribe in europe, where Lech conquered north europe (Poland), Cek in west (czech), and Rus in east (Russia)

[@saigashotgun8219]

We also often call our country, the Czech republic, Absurdistan, when commenting on certain political issues :-)))

[@allanclark3283]

Tourists named Stan must be a laugh for them. "Hey, look! Here comes Town again."

[@BinglesP]

Must also be amusing to hear the modern slang term “Stan”(explained at 3:28) too.

[@DanilloMagalhaes]

Greetings from Corruptistan, i mean, Brazil!

[@mronurciftci]

the turkish language is heavily influenced by the persian language, and as an addition to these mentioned countries, in our language we have: hırvatistan (croatia) sırbistan (serbia) bulgaristan (bulgaria) yunanistan (greece) gürcistan (georgia) ermenistan (armenia) macaristan (hungary) suudi arabistan (saudi arabia) moğolistan (mongolia) hope that i did not forget anyone.

[@mosseyhummel4358]

you are absolutely right my friend.Some body ,earlier said that in Turkish Hungary is MaKarestan,which is wrong because the way you correctly mentioned it is (sounds)Majarestan.Hungars themselves in their ancient manuscripts make mentions of the tribe or nation of MADGYARs sound Majars.Mossey

[@persianking6645]

In persian language all countries has stan Poland= lahstan Saudi Arabia =arbstan England = englistan Turky =turkestan

[@jdrfh9885]

That is why when so many Iranian visit Turkey to find their wat Europe need Turkish interpreter.

[@jdrfh9885]

Yes the Iranian called Bulgaristan and so on... BUT the argument is on the Origen of (STAN) stan is not Farsi or Persian its derived from Sanskrit language. Farsi is influenced much by Arabic and Sanskrit languages. Go and study.

[@kasiphia]

​@@jdrfh9885 Wrong! The discussion isn't about the origin of the suffix itself, but rather the origin of its use in this particular context. Stop being all proud and saying stuff no one asked for. It's embarrassing, whole comment section just a bunch of Indians going "um actually Stan is from Sanskrit 🤓." No one asked.

[@Nickelist]

The United Stans

[@silentbigsteve3429]

Alvin chang NoOooOoOOO

[@Nickelist]

tHe uNITed sTaTes oF StANS

[@finnmertens4328]

Alvin chang united stans for freedom🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@sfsepehr]

Excellent job. You may be interested to know in Persian, the name of many other lands/countries end with "stan", e.g. Engelestan for England, Lahestan for Poland, Majarestan for Hungary (the land of Magyar people, not Huns), Armanestan for Armenia, Gorjestan for Georgia, etc etc etc. About the meaning of "Tajik", some scholars believe when Turkic people arrived in Central Asia, they called Iranians "Tajik" (non-Turk), the same way Arabs called Iranians "Ajam" (non-Arabs), remembering Tajiks are Eastern Iranians while the current Iranians are Western Iranian people. :)

[@ondermetu]

Narration sounds like an introduction section of a thesis study. Delivery of the topic is superb.

[@Filled2105]

In Turkic languages, "stan" is a suffix in some other country names too. For example, Azerbaijani Turkish name for Georgia is Gürcü *stan* , and the name for India is Hindi *stan* . A more common suffix would be "iya" which is in many country names such as Yapon *iya* (Japan), Rus *iya* (Russia), Çex *iya* (Czechia) etc.

[@burakbayram7991]

Ferid Memmedzade koyu şekilde nasıl yazdınız?

[@friedrichhayek8628]

For example Greece in Turkish is Yunanistan= Yunan ( Ione Greeks in Persian ) + stan.

[@Filled2105]

Yes, I forgot about that one

[@Filled2105]

Yazının her iki tarafına * işaresi koydum

[@Filled2105]

Yes, I knew that. And, we also have the word Shah-zada in Turkish, it means prince. I'm pretty sure Zada comes from Indo-Iranian

[@Mishalrahis]

1:18 please don't mispronounce "sthānam" what u said has a completely different meaning!😅 sthanam= *breast* sthaanam= *place* *in Sanskrit and many modern indian languages

[@ashuexcel]

Mishal Rahis the word for breasts is "stann" not "sthaan"..

[@amankumarsingh1176]

Saaduddin Ansari No Ayesha's breast..

[@iZAnAmi99]

@@amankumarsingh1176 LMFAO

[@TheSighphiguy]

i would like to live in SthanamSthaanam. the land of milk and horny.

[@copycode2303]

Idiots its stan!

[@xoopss]

In Russian Stan is a place someone settled - stopped for a living. That’s where Astanovka comes from - stop ( like a bus or train stop) or astanavitsa - to stop. Lots of indoeuropean languages has this word ;)

[@matsrosenquist4620]

We are using this word in Sweden, as Staden / Stan, meaning city! Thats why I have wondered about & thank you for the information!

[@mmsherzad6352]

sweden has a city called avesta where do these names come from? because avesta is ancient persian sacred religious book

[@mustsphamatto3601]

So where is the link

[@yourmajesty1361]

I can help; Both Tâjik & Afqân are of Persian origin. First of all I explain the etymology of Tajik. Iranians have always used the words tâcik or tâžik for "strangers", "foreigners", those who didn't spoke Iranian languages. Just like the Greeks who said to non-Greeks "Barbarians" and Arabs who said to non-Arabs "Ajam". Over time, the words tâcik and tâžik were pronounced in the Persian language as "tâzi" and the word was gradually being used specifically for Arabs. However, the ancient style of the pronounciation of the word remained untouched in Iranian regions of Turân and Transoxania, and thus tâcik and tâžik were still used there for strangers and non-Iranian peoples. Later, after the migration of the Turks from Torkestân; an area in Northwestern China, to Central Asia - and the intermingling of the Altaic Turks with the Iranic peoples of Central Asia - the word "tâcik" was adopted by the Turkic population of these areas for 'foreigners' or 'non-Turkic' peoples. From then on, the combination of the two words "Tork" (Turk) and "Tâjik" (Tajik) became very popular in the literary works of that time, meaning "Turk" and "non-Turk"." The Etymology of Afqân is quite easier. It's the Persian word for the Pashtun people.

[@atotallyextinctdinosaur]

Âraš Kamândâr thanks for taking time to write that comment 👍

[@BruceLee-qs6ew]

No

[@khaleda.135]

Never did i read something about Persians calling Arabs "Tajik" as they used the word "Arab" for Arabs which was the Assyrian/Babylonian and Aramaic word for Nomad or Westerner. But you might be right.

[@yourmajesty1361]

The word 'Tâzi' was and is indeed used for Arabs in Persian. I said that the etymology of Tâzi goes back to the the word Tâžik which meant 'foreigner' or 'stranger'. Even the Chinese used the term Tazi [大食] for Arabs.

[@suluayran121]

A little correction;Barbar was not actually used to define strangers but rather uncivilized hordes. For example Phoenicians Carthaginians and other civilized city states were not called like that.

[@FACTFOX]

Sanskrit and Persian both have this word ‘Sthan’.

[@sonofpharaoh9716]

FACTFOX or seethan

[@farshads3367]

Linguistically ‘stan’ is Persian although Sanskrit, Persian, German, English etc are all among Indo-European/Indo-Iranian languages.

[@mr.noname6109]

FACTFOX it is of Indo-europian origin.

[@bhavanithakur9428]

Sthan means place no

[@harveyspecter1855]

Farshad S and they say Sanskrit is the mother of all languages.

[@JustAnotherMe]

Hey, I would like to know the reason for the -ia suffix too. (the -land one is more obvious). Also, why are some people/languages Americ-an, Kore-an, Indi-an while some are Brit-ish, Span-ish, Turk-ish and still others are Chin-ese, Japan-ese, Portugu-ese?

[@avirajkumar9044]

This channel work is very good and different

[@ifUreadthisURalien]

Engstan Irestan Finstan Icestan Greenstan Deutchstan Netherstans New Zeastan Cayman Istands Falkstan Istans

[@onesharpkey3114]

dafuq

[@giauhuynhj263]

North Koreanistan!😈

[@isaacbobjork7053]

I believe Armenia is called Hayastan in their own language, with the -stan suffix being of that same Persian meaning.

[@suren2313]

Isaac Bobjörk Armenia have long shared history with Persia

[@meteorite1157]

3:05 In turkish(languages change so much!), kazak actually means jersey lol “The turkish word for forty.” Idk why but in turkish forty is in so much idioms and stuff its kinda important Edit: also hindi (we call hindustan hindistan in turkish) means turkey which is ironic bc we are turkey in english 🦃 🦃

[@giauhuynhj263]

😂

[@sanatansatya9147]

The core of every deep wisdom is Vedic

[@ajvark]

Surprised you didnt mention Armenia's native name of Hayastan.

[@nitinb1034]

incomplete info. actually stan comes from Sanskrit word sthaan (place) which is derived from Sanskrit verb root sthaa (to stay/to remain). notice, there is a continuum of countries from India to northernmost stan and for good reason. before advent of Islam all those countries worshipped Hindu gods and buddha and their cultures were greatly influenced by sanskrit. Islam erased that culture. mouth

[@rajneeshpal8854]

Nitin B this is the perfect answer. Whoever made this video, they should do complete study.

[@azaliarastin5025]

Nacho right.still most of province in Iran are separated by estan and indoeuropean are Aryan Iranian.because all those estan were part of Aryan land including khazarestan ,khazarestan is second empire of Persian at same time with central bigger empire of Sumerian and Akamenian

[@bordershader]

I've never heard that and I'm a language nut. Proto Indo European's origins aren't really known but it's suggested it was somewhere in what's now Russia (Russian Steppes) so spread both directions. The connections between all the PIE languages is amazing. But if anyone claims that Europeans gave it to India, that's total racist crap. You can't even say it was the other way around (that India gave it to Europe) because no one knows for sure.

[@randomjiwan2498]

Sahi kaha bhai ye sanskrit se aaya h waha k log sthaan word me vishuddhi aa gai h sthaan la satan ban gya

[@saif1002]

Nitin B nobody erased Sanskrit culture, I speak Punjabi it is just as related to Sanskrit as Gujarati, marati, or any other pure Indian language.

[@discojelly]

After looking at the comments here.. I am damn GLAD I done come from the United States of America. We 're a mix bag of nuts in my country and we got folks from so many great countries all over the world throughout our country's history. Don't get me wrong I love travelling and meeting new cultures and seeing other people's countries. The more you get out .. the more you get to know other folks from other places. By the way.. great video. I never knew what that meant.

[@EliteCasualGamer07]

Nice content keep it up.

[@lukacvitkovic8550]

In croatian (and adjacent south slavic languages) we also have the word STAN, though it has grown to mean specifically "apartment". However we still have its more rooted IE meaning in words like STANište, meaning "habitat" and STANovati meaning "to live at/in a place". Also, in a somewhat archaic form you can say STAN as meaning a general place of living. So your apartment is a STAN but your house/town/region are as well with the right context :)

[@SuicideBunny6]

'Stan' comes from STalker fAN, so Kazachstan is just the country with the Kazach stalker fans, Uzibekistan has Uzbek stalker fans etc.

[@qokandavalanches6077]

SuicideBunny6 ok...

[@rougewillow]

In South parts of Russia, Ukrainia and Belarus, the word STAN is used to describe a specious living area that is no town nor a village. There can be several privat houses with some land around it, one foodstore and one gas station. Yet no postal office or any govermental representative. Sometimes these places are near rivers or small lakes.

[@roosterd6904]

Stan was a popular guy at the beer hall, everyone wants to be Stan.

[@nicosmind3]

If your name is Stan then all activities you do are Stan activities, including the place where you stand, which is the place where you Stan. In bed you Stan, at work you Stan, and when the weekend comes you really Stan.

[@pansithabhab8631]

Greetings form Philippinestan 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[@alexgabrieluy4029]

Greetings from Philipinstan too:)

[@pierresihite8854]

Well halo there from indonesiastan

[@johnlisterpalines3290]

Ang tanga mo

[@mr.sinjin-smyth]

BANGSAMOROSTAN

[@Rizal12061986]

which means the land belongs to king philip of spain. htf are you proud being slave?🤦

[@Ragemuffn]

Stan is also a slang version of swedish "Staden" which means "The city" or specifically with the slang "the down town / city centre"

[@barthoche]

In Thai, several location words use the prefix "stan", pronunced "satan" such as "satantee" which means "place" "satanee" for "station" or "satantoot" for "Embassy".

[@singhanmolpreet5935]

I prefer STHAN, with the "TH" sound, as in when you say THOT. Thats how its ACTUALLY meant to be, hons.

[@user-gl6su3xi6s]

Stan means not necessarily homeland, but 'place of'. It has same root as 'Stand' in English or Stead/Stad in Germanic.

[@user-gl6su3xi6s]

For example; Hospitals are called Bimaristan in Persian. Bimar = Sick person

[@neemapaxima6116]

In fact Stan refers to "abundance", Not necessarily homeland. The Persian word for summer is Tabestan... Tab = Shine

[@b17bookie]

New follow... I like it 😎🇻🇮

[@jgoshert]

Armenia's name in Armenian is Hayastan, and they also use "stan" for a variety of country names in Armenian.

[@tanellidesaragossa855]

Just to add that "-stan" is not only of Indo-Iranian origin but also Indo-European. Hence, it is related to "to stand" in English, or "Stadt" ('city') in German. Hindustan does not necessarily relate to the religion but to the geographical region (Hindu derives from Sindhu, the Sanskrit name of the Indus river) Apart from the independent countries and Russian provinces, there are also other provinces such as in Iran (e.g. Golestan, Sistan-va-Baluchestan), or within the the stan-countries (Balochistan in Pakistan) that carry the stan-Suffix. Even the Persian name for province (Ostan) carries it. If somebody is wondering about why the North of Pakistan is depicted differently in different maps, it is because in some maps, the entire Kashmir region is included, in others it is the Pakistani-administered region, while in others (like here) the entire Kashmir region is left out

[@yunoewig3095]

'Cause Uncle Stan named them that way.

[@unclepodger]

Daniel Sampaio where's my good old chap Uncle Stan

[@-Faris-]

Gruncle Stan...

[@whatsappvideosandgifs4315]

Daniel Sampaio Uncle Satan

[@yunoewig3095]

Whatsapp Videos and GIF's Uncle Satan visited me this night. He offered me a piece of ginger, and planted somes flowers on my window. Not such a bad guy, other than his terrible habit of appearing and disappearing, and of replying you only when he feels like it.

[@seekthemaker6957]

I’m from Afghanistan. Stan I was told means land of. Afghan to best of my knowledge came from the Greek word Apogan meaning “from garden” or it could be translated as farmers. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks

[@aroamer]

Province in Persian named ostan and we call lots of European countries name in Persian with stan at the end. Like uk which is called englestan.

[@lukacool5585]

Stan Means Land Of In Persian. Kazakhstan Means Land Of The Kazakh's

[@Peristerygr]

Τhat's true. For instance Greece in Turkish is "Yunanistan" "the land of Yunans". I suppose in those languages many more country names end in "-stan"

[@farukdiken7521]

Yes it does for example Hungary is Macaristan in Turkish. Arabistan , Bulgaristan ....

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

Grigoris Karelis Persian was the language that the Ottomans used for about 200 years. Yunan also has it's root in Persian. "Yun" is the ancient Ionia (in eastern Turk) and "An" is a suffix for place too! Like irAN(the place of the Eers) isfahAN (the place of the "Spahs" or the Armies) and so on! But the Turks have also added another Stan at the end of it, which is weird.

[@tctomy21]

you forgot about kekistan

[@paulodebourgogne]

tctomy21 praise kek

[@-Faris-]

Goddamnit and I just commented that....

[@theoneandonlyhooda]

it means a random nigga is trolling you

[@theoneandonlyhooda]

despacito

[@Ulrna]

Praise Kek and his son Pepe who died for our memes

[@timind7934]

cool! thanks for the infos

[@RayAviationYalla-Habibi]

If you live in West Yorkshire you have locals calling Bradford Bradstan

[@mortezamiri9861]

In Persian there are actually more country names that ends with Stan. England=Englistan Poland=Lahistan Mongolia=Mogholistan Saudi Arabia=Arabistan Armenia=Armanistan Georgia=Gorjstan And I am sure there are more I don't remember right now.

[@anwaralbaghdadi8115]

Didn’t know that! Wow

[@dastforush]

Hungary=Majarestan

[@fanzy1338]

Mortez Miri Serbia=Serbistan Hungry=Majaristan Poland=Lahistan

[@mortezamiri9861]

@@fanzy1338 That's right!👍

[@fanzy1338]

Mortez Miri Also: Bulgaria=Bulgharistan

[@princekrazie]

"Stan" has the same root word as "state," "stone," "stand," and "status."

[@rouldennn]

stan suffix is directly derived from the verb "ist'ân" or in modern Persian, "ast ân" which means "those who are". regarding that "ân" itself in Persian means those, stan is often considered to be "of those (that belongs to)" - in many IE languages this has been gone too far from being a suffix mode and has become a word; in Persian, Province is called "Ostân" and in Polish the same - More or less the influence of the Iranic Sarmatians and have to say in Persian itself, there are dozens of countries ending in stan. starting from far west: Engelestân (England), Lahestân (Poland), Majârestân (Hungary), Serbestân (Serbia), Bolqârestân (Bulgaria), Arabestân (Arabia), Gorjestân (Georgia), Armanestân (Armenia), Dagestân (Dagestan), Kordestan (Kurdistan), Pakestân (Pakistan), Afqânestân (Afghanistan), Torkamanestân (Turkmenistan), Ozbakestân (Uzbekistan), Tajikesân (Tajikistan), Hendustân (India), Qerqizestân (Kyrgyzstan), Qazâqestân (Kazakhstan), and finaly Moqulestân (Mongolia).

[@BLKPlutoh]

Brilliant work 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 concise, informative with a nice touch of humor

[@TuffLP]

2:37 Please note that Turks do not come from Turkey (Anatolia), which was part of the (Greek-ish) Byzantine Empire. Turks originally come from the Central Asian steppe (so from the area of the -stans). They conqured todays Turkey under the Seljuk and Ottoman Empires in th 10th to 15th century.

[@emre2642]

that's right, what's wrong with it? We overcame just like ancient latins did in france spain etc and slavs in balkans and europeans in america and anglos/germanics in britain. this list can go further

[@awsomemodels]

Also there are tons on tons of cities that end with abad

[@Analysis_Paralysis]

awesome models "Abad" is Persian and means "built".

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

Stan may come from slavic language,here few examples.1.Stan=Apartment,2.Stanishte=Living ground,3.Stanovati=To Habitate.

[@LeeSchilbe]

You should explain the name of your patrons. I noticed a few good ones in there.

[@shiv421kobra]

India is actually still known as Hindustan! (Insert The More You Know jingle)

[@uekiguy5886]

shiv--Do you know how long ago/in what century the English began referring to it as "India"? I'm interested in this, because I've heard two contradictory things. Thank you.

[@otomackena7610]

uekiguy since the Greek probably. The reason being it is a greek name of India which all of the west adopted to refer India.

[@uekiguy5886]

Altair--Thank you for replying.

[@otomackena7610]

uekiguy here is a lil detailed source books.google.co.in/books?id=IUtrAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT8&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

[@uekiguy5886]

Altair--Fascinating read. Thanks for the link.

[@Ignik208]

So if these countries united for some reason, would their combined name be Stansstan? :v

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

To actually answer your question lmao, probably not. On older globes you'll find the region labeled "Turkestan"

[@Dddherdjo]

Ed Moritz why turkestan?

[@fisebilillah4406]

Ignighton These countries could only unite under a caliphate, there is no other way.

[@Ed19601]

Polystan

[@lilied1]

Stan in perisan is a suffix for place. Basically stan means " the place of". There are many more countries in persian that end in stan. For example Bulgaria is bulgarestan, poland is lehestan, serbia is serbestan...

[@steretsjaaj2368]

In south slavic stan (and it's derivates ofc) means home (or living space, apartment)

[@athanatiEllada]

What about the geographic region called Turkestan ?

[@labnab6764]

Its region south of Kazakhstan and about half of Uzbekistan mb

[@athanatiEllada]

@EXTRA LARGE Of course it has nothing to do with Anatolia

[@miladd237]

In Persian there are a lot more Stan nations in the world map and they were a lot more in history And in ancient Iran (Persia) Turkestan was a region in modern Northern Kazakhstan,Southern Siberia and Mongolia

[@miladd237]

@@labnab6764 It's acctualty Northern Kazakhstan+Southern Siberia+Mongolia

[@athanatiEllada]

Thank you for your interesting explanations!

[@MilanRubiksCube97]

No Hayastan? Okay...

[@mb.khatibi6444]

Tajik means related to taj. Taj in persian means crown. Tjiks speak persian which was royal language of ancient times in these regions.