| Hint | Country |
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| From the Hebrew Bible: a name given to the patriarch Jacob | |
| Name self explanatory | |
| From the Arabic diminutive form of Kut or Kout | |
| Generally accepted to be a translation of the Biblical name | |
| 'Home of the Free' | |
| After an eponymous river, the name of which derives from the Hebrew and Canaanite root for 'descend' | |
'Land of the Aryans' or 'land of the free'
first attested in Zoroastrianism's Avesta tradition | |
Probably derived from the Middle
Persian 'Erak', meaning 'lowlands' | |
'Land of the ____s'
The ethnonym is derived from an ancient Turkic word | |
| Uncertain etymology, most probably from Arabic ymn | |
| First part of the name refers to the ruling dynasty and is from a patriarch whose name means 'constellation' | |
| Derived from Semitic root 'LBN': Linked to several closely related meanings in various languages, such as 'white' and 'milk' referring to snow capped eponymous mountain | |
'Land of the Pure' in Urdu and Persian
Coined in 1933 without the 'i' by Choudhry Rahmat
Ali in his pamphlet Now or Never as an acronym | |
| 'Home of the ____', an ethnic group whose name derives from the Sogdian 'Turk-like', in reference to their status outside the Turkic dynastic mythological system | |
'Land of Aturpat', after a Hellenistic king from
south of the modern state; name meaning
'The Treasury' or 'Fire' or 'The Treasurer of Fire' | |
'Land of the ____s', an ethnic group whose name
derives from their endonym meaning 'created' | |
| 'Land of the forty tribes' | |
Meaning unknown
derived from the 8th century BC Luwian term
'Sura/i', and the derivative ancient Greek name | |
'Home of the ____', a Persian-speaking ethnic group
Difficult to ascertain the origin of the ethnonym | |
| Etymology uncertain, appeared in Western Europe in numerous early medieval annals; it was folk etymologized to stem from a special reverence to a Syrian saint | |
| Etymology uncertain; Probably related to Pliny the Elder's Omana and Ptolemy's Omanon, both probably the ancient Sohar | |
'The Land of the _____s'
The root has been used for the Pashtun people and the suffix means 'place of' in the local languages | |
| Etymology unknown; Latinized from Greek 'Land of the Armenioi' attested in the 5th century BC, from Old Persian Armina, attested in the late 6th century BC | |
'The Two Seas' in Arabic: Which two seas meant is disputed
Folk etymology: The two seas mentioned 5 times in the Quran, but those refer to Saudi deserts opposite modern country | |
| May derive from an ancient trading port or town in the | |
