-stan "koborsthan" ( "") "graveyard/cemetery", known as "Qabaristan" as (). Originally an independent noun, this morpheme evolved into a suffix by virtue of appearing frequently as the last part in nominal compounds. It is of Indo-Iranian and ultimately Indo-European origin: It is cognate with Sanskrit "" (Devanagari: ), meaning "the act of standing", from which many further meanings derive, including "place, location; abode, dwelling", and ultimately descends from Proto-Indo-Iranian . The Proto-Indo-European root from which this noun is derived is (older reconstruction ) "to stand" (or "to stand up, to step (somewhere), to position (oneself)"), which is also the source of
Name of Croatia the name of the Croats: From the Iranian theses the most widely accepted is the derivation by Oleg Trubachyov from "*xar-va(n)t" (feminine, rich in women, ruled by women), which derives from the etymology of Sarmatians name, the Indo-Aryan "*sar-ma(n)t" "feminine", in both Indo-Iranian adjective suffix "-ma(n)t/wa(n)t", and Indo-Aryan and the Indo-Iranian "*sar-" "woman", which in Iranian gives "*har-". According to Radoslav Katičić this thesis doesn't entirely fit with the Croatian ethnonym, as the original form was "Hrъvate" not "Hъrvate", and the vowel "a" in the Iranian "harvat-" is short, while in the Slavic "Hrъvate" it is long. Katičić concluded that