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Merging

Article merged: See old talk-page here

--Antidiskriminator (talk) 09:41, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:21, 12 November 2011 (UTC)



BedestanBedesten

Per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:ENGLISH Google Books Search on english language has much more hits for Bedesten then for Bedestan :

Antidiskriminator (talk) 10:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

  • Support. The figures given above are Google estimates, and may be unreliable. More focused and contextual Googlebook searches to support the move, both restricted with "Books›Jan 1, 1980–Nov 5, 2011":

"a bedesten": 49 genuine hits

"a bedestan": 32 genuine hits

See also this ngrams report for "bedesten,Bedesten,bedestan,Bedestan".
And finally, see the Turkish Wikipedia article: Bedesten. The alteration of the Persian etymon -istan, familiar from other derivatives, appears to be due to Turkish vowel harmony, which assimilates the back vowel represented by that a to the front vowel in bed-, with a similar shift for the i.
NoeticaTea? 01:45, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.