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Ahwaz or Ahvaz〔(Ahvāz; Encyclopædia Britannica )〕 ((ペルシア語:اهواز ''Ahvāz'')) is a city in the south of Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,432,965, in 796,239 families. Ahwaz has the world's worst air pollution according to a survey by the World Health Organization in 2011.〔''Guinness World Records 2013'', Page 036 (Hardcover edition). ISBN 9781904994879〕 Ahwaz is built on the banks of the Karun River and is situated in the middle of Khuzestan Province, of which it is the capital and most populous city. The city has an average elevation of 20 meters above sea level. ==Etymology== The word ''Ahvaz'' is a Persianized form, which in turn itself is derived from a Persian word. The Dehkhoda Dictionary specifically defines the "Suq-al-Ahwaz" as "Market of the Khuzis", where "Suq" is the elamite word for market, and "Ahwaz" is a broken plural (اسم جمع) of the form "af'āl" (افعال) of the word "Huz", which itself comes from the Persian ''Huz'', from Achaemenid inscriptions where the term first appears. Thus, "Ahwaz" in Persian means "the Huz-i people", which refers to the non-Arabic original inhabitants of Khūzestān. The name of the region appears in medieval Syriac sources as ', literally meaning "land of the Huzis". The term "Huz", meanwhile, is the Old Persian rendition of Suz (Susa-Susiana), the native Elamite name of the region. Old Persian commonly changed the initial "s" in a foreign word into an "h," most famously, in its rendition of the name the river and the people Sindh/Sindhi into Hind/Hindi, which was then Hellenized into Indus, whence India. See Origin of the name Khuzestan and Elam#Etymology for more details. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ahvaz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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