Abadi (rural locality)

An abadi (Persian: آبادی, romanized: ābādī) is a term often used in Persian to describe a rural location, typically a settlement in a rural environment, or informally as a town or city.[1][2][3] The word Abadi derives from "آباد‎, ābād", which translates to "populous, thriving, prosperous".[4]

For settlements named "Abadi", see Abadi (disambiguation).

A typical Abadi in Iran

Being a generic and ambiguous term referring to small settlements, the statistical center of Iran uses the term in a broader sense, either a village, farm and "site" such as gas stations, restaurants, mines, railway stations, etc.[5][6][7] As of the 1973 census 23 per cent of ābādīs are non-residential.[8]

References
  1. Bellew, Henry Walter (1867). A Dictionary of the Puk̲k̲h̲to Or Puk̲s̲h̲to Language, in which the Words are Traced to Their Sources in the Indian and Persian Languages. Thacker & Company. p. 321. ISBN 978-0365509110. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  2. Ashraf, Ahmad (20 August 2020) [1982]. "ĀBĀDĪ". Encyclopædia Iranica. Brill Publishers.
  3. Nyberg, H.S. (1964). A Manual of Pahlavi. Vol. 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 25. ISBN 978-3-447-01580-6. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  4. Akbar, Ali (2016) [1998]. "آباد". Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian).
  5. Balland, Daniel; Bazin, Marcel (30 August 2020). "DEH". Encyclopaedia Iranica Online.
  6. "۱۷۰۰ روستای خراسان جنوبی خالی از سکنه شده‌اند". Deutsche Welle (in Persian). 20 June 2020. Archived from the original on 21 June 2020.
  7. Manual for Census Takers [Râhnamây-e Ma'mur-e Saršomâri] (PDF). Tehran: Statistical center of Iran. 2006. pp. 59–65.
  8. Encyclopaedia Iranica Vol. 1. Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation. 15 December 1982. pp. 57–58. Retrieved 21 July 2022.

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