Abshineh ( fa, ابشينه, also
Romanize
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d as Ābshīneh) is a village in
Sangestan Rural District
Sangestan Rural District ( fa, دهستان سنگستان) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Hamadan County, Hamadan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Pers ...
, in the
Central District of
Hamadan County
Hamadan County ( fa, شهرستان همدان) is located in Hamadan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Hamadan
Hamadan () or Hamedan ( fa, همدان, ''Hamedān'') ( Old Persian: Haŋgmetana, Ecbatana) is the capital city of Ha ...
,
Hamadan Province,
Iran
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. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,356, in 372 families.
The name ''Ābshīneh'' is derived from Western
Middle Iranian ''*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 Pashto, Persian, Sogdian, Zazaki, Ossetian, Mazandarani ...
''*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".
References
Populated places in Hamadan County
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