The Persian link of Uzbekistan pro league team names

[koorosh]

I read this interesting article in BBC Persian that discusses how the Persian names of Uzbeki teams, having first been transliterated into Russian (Cyrillic alphabet) and then from Cyrillic into Latin letters, and then finally back into Persian, have resulted in the names being totally miswritten and misread in Persian. I learned a lot from the article and I think you would find it interesting too:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/sport/2...ation_rajabian

For those whose Persian is not great a brief synopsis:

Pakhtakor or Paxtakor, is really pronouced Pakhteh kaar, meaning Panbeh kaar (Pakhteh is another word for Panbeh or cotton), ie cottonpickers or cotton workers

Bunyodkor. Is pronounced Bonyadkaar, ie Bonyad Kaar

Rubin Kazan is Rubin Ghazaan. Ghazaan is a Mongolian word meaning a large pot and there are towns in Iran also of the same name (Like Ghareh Ghazaan).

And Nasaf Ghaarshi is correctly pronounced Nasaf Gharshi. Nasaf is the name of a famous little town in greater Khorasan, currently in Uzbekistan, that remains Persian speaking. Gharshi is the Mongolian name of the same

[PersianLegion]

very interesting.

[persian-eagle-13]

cool! we have a lot in common with the uzbeks

[MesKerman341]

What about Indonesian teams like persipura?

[persian8iran]

Uzbekistan is one of my fav teams in Asia. Before the best player is Djeparov, now is Rashinov

[PersianLegion]

Rashidov and Sergeev both are great players.

[KhumoUzbek]

I could be a decent TV commentator for Iranian TV if I train a bit imho.

I'll be like: Offside darkornis, zarba shum, joy migire, offside nabud. yek-yek.