Author: Esmati, Najeebullah

Annotation: This article is devoted to the classification of hydronyms of Takhar province. In this paper, the hydronyms of the studied region are classified according to their onomastic-morphological and lexical-semantic features in which the origin of the names of water basins and the role of hydronyms to formation of other onomastic units were discussed. Meanwhile, the role of hydronyms in the study of the history and origin of the hydronyms and the linguistic structure of hydronyms in the Takhar province and the role of these hydronyms in the formation of some onomastic units (oykonims, agroonims, dromonims...) in this region have also been studied. As well as ,the role of hydronyms in the study of folk history and origin were evaluated.

Keywords: hydronym, water basins, onomastic unit, onomastic-morphological classification, lexical-semantic classification.

Pages in journal: 259 - 268