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You're using the Soviet bastardization of the name. The original Kazakh name (Almaty, which has been used through the whole history of the city) has nothing to
by 5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
You're using the Soviet bastardization of the name. The original Kazakh name (Almaty, which has been used through the whole history of the city) has nothing to do with apples or grandfathers.
- dmitriid 5y agoUnless you accept that Almaty comes from Almatau which means Apple Mountain. There's little doubt that the name comes from the word apple.
- nanis 5y ago> You're using the Soviet bastardization of the name. I am genuinely curious about how the name Alma Ata which consists of two Turkic words and which how I was taught in school when I was growing up in Turkey is the "Soviet bastardization". Update: Hmmm ... Wikipedia article also seems to indicate that it was Soviet thing to call it Alma Ata: > The name Almaty has its roots in the medieval settlement Almatu, that existed near the present-day city.[10] A disputed theory holds that the name is derived from the Kazakh word for 'apple' (алма), and is often translated as "full of apples". Originally it was Almatau which means Apple Mountain. The Russian version of the name was Alma-Ata (Kaz. Father of Apples). Since gaining its independence from the Soviet Union, the use of the Kazakh Almaty is accepted.