The story
- Middle Persian · derived fromHūǰestān-vāčār
- Arabic · derived fromأَهْوَاز
- Persian · derived fromاهواز
- English todayAhvaz
From Persian اهواز (ahvâz), from Arabic أَهْوَاز (ʔahwāz) and اَلْأَهْوَاز (al-ʔahwāz), a shortened form of سُوق الْأَهْوَاز (sūq al-ʔahwāz), a partial-calque of Middle Persian Hūǰestān-vāčār (literally “the market of Khuzestan”), name of a major town in Sassanian-era Khuzestan; see Khuzestan for more.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.