Once I got some knowledge from an Iranian. He wrote:"I looked up Steingass and it had the word "Lahistâni", which is another pronunciation of Lahestâni (Polish).
In Borhâne Qâte (17th century lexicon written by an Iranian in India) it writes: Leh = Name of a city (or country) in Farangestân (Europe) situated in the vicinity of Rum (Rome). Most probably "Ahli Lah" is just Ahl (Arabic loan word meaning native) + -i (= -e for conjunction) + Lah (= Lache or Leche). So Ahli Lah = Lahestâni = Native of Poland = Polish." [end of quote]

Turks call Poland - Lehistan while the Arabs: Bolanda. Perhaps the name Lah ( a name of Lach tribes ) appeared in Iran through the Ottoman Turks?

The name Hungary drives from On Ogur meaning "Ten Tribes" in Old Western Turkic (the Magyars were composed of ten tribes IIRC).

Onogur -> Ungar -> Hungary

For boody4:

The Hungarians call themselves Magyar and the country Magyarország ( pol. Madziar, madziarski, also magierka). We say: Węgier (old use Węgrzyn), Węgry, comp. czech. Uher, Uhry, rus. Wiengr, Wiengrija, also eng. Hungarian, germ. Ungar, fran. Hongrois, span. Húngaro. This is why the Hungarians used to write in latin texts: Ungri, later Ungari, and then Hungari. Aleksander Brückner in his Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego suggests that the Slavs transfered name Onogur, Ongur (w- the aspiration, old slav. ągri) onto the Hungarians.

Cyrus Shahmiri wrote: have heard that the word pole means "field" in Polish, I think it can be related to Pol or Pal in Persian which means "a flat ground suitable for farming".

Can you find out similar relations in other polish tribal names like Mazoszanie (spell. mazoshanie), Kujawianie (kuiavianie), Kaszubi (kashubi), Kurpie etc. There are some towns with sufficses -gard that remains persian -gird in Poland.

Calling a Polish as Leh is easier to say than calling Polonyali

But for country name i prefer Polonya to Lehistan

sorry for going off topic BTW

Originally posted by boody4 Sorry, but I'm not that good at understanding written polish , I'm more used to spoken polish. If it's not too much trouble , can you give me the overall explanation of that website, because it didn't clear up anything for me to be honest.

Makes sense because a lot of slavic words take their root in ancient Iranian languages. Like our word for GOD: BOG.

I wonder what other words might take their root from ancient Iranian languages.

i dont know, anyway even turks called it Lehistan....

my language is different of yours that i could collapse, relativly same to Finnish...

anyway, polish call their country as Rzcepszopolita(or something like that???), i think it meant Repuplic. Polish Republic in Estonian - Poola Vabariik. It makes maybe sence to look what it is in Turkish and then to English and away, there should come maybe even the name of Hungary ("Ungari" in Estonian) and Italy("Itaalia" in Estonian).

Ungari(est)

Ungar(ger)

Hungary(eng)

Hungaros(frn)

Weingri(rus.)

Wegri(pls)

And besides that i think the Ukranian languages have its affect on polish so should know how it is in Ukranian and somewhere it changes to Russian and you can see the names resemble with Polish.

Now, if someone understood anything,

Those words sound very Persian but I can't say exactly they are similar to which Persian words, maybe ...

Mazoshanie -> Mahroshan (Light Moon)
Kuiavianie -> Kaviani (Kingship, Royal, Descendents of Kaveh) or Keivan (Saturn)
Kashubi -> Kashian (Kassite) or Kashvad (One of descendants of Kaveh, founder of Gudarzian dynasty)

"polish call their country as Rzcepszopolita(or something like that???), i think it meant Repuplic."

(*Rzeczpospolita)I think it's more Polish Commonwealth.

"And besides that i think the Ukranian languages have its affect on polish so should know how it is in Ukranian and somewhere it changes to Russian and you can see the names resemble with Polish."

Um..if I understood what you're saying ... Ukrainian is like a mix of Russian and Polish, the names resemble more the Polish ones because it was longer under Polish rule than Russian rule so most of the Ukrainien names were either polish or polonised. I have Ukrainien and Russian friends and I understand almost everything my Ukrainien friend says but it's a different story for my Russian friend .

Word Rzeczpospolita is taken direct from latin - "Res Publica" - "Rzecz Pospolita" - Res means thing - in this context means country. Publica - means that it belongs to the populi - people.

i think that since res would mean country or perhaps land as in people and if they took pospolita from poly meaning many in greek it coudl also probably mean "land of many peoples", as there were a lot of nationalities at the time. Does this perhaps make any possible sense to anyone?