The story
- Kazakh · derived fromҚызылорда
- Russian · borrowed fromКызылорда́
- English todayKyzylorda
Borrowed from Russian Кызылорда́ (Kyzylordá), from Kazakh Қызылорда (Qızılorda), from қызыл (qızıl, “red”) (used here in the common Soviet ideological connotation) + орда (orda, “horde”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.