Bactrian language
The name "Ghor" is a cognate to Avestan "gairi-", Sanskrit "giri-" and Middle Persian "gar", in modern Persian "koh-", Sogdian "gor-"/"gur-", in later developed Bactrian language as "g´wrao-" (also "paravata"), meaning "mountain", in modern Pashto as "ghar-", in Pamir languages as "gar-" and "ghalcca-" ("mountain").