The current name is said by some to have been based upon the Persian for "frontier town" or, more literally, "forward city," though transcription errors and linguistic shifts may account for the city's new name.
一些人说现在城市名字是基于波斯语，意为“边境城镇” ，或者更确切地说叫“前进城市”，不过抄写错误和语言转变也可能是城市产生新名称的原因。