About the semantics of the names and toponyms mentioned in a paper (on the sample of the paper by Rasim Nabioghlu)

Abstract

The paper is about the semantics of the outstanding Azerbaijani scholars, writers and poets’ names, patronymics, surnames which enter the main name category and nicknames and pen-names which out of it, mentioned in the paper under the title of “In the Crossing of Classics and Contemporaneity” dealing with the academician Mammad Arif Dadashzade’s life and works by doctor of philosophy on philology, associate professor Rasim Nabioghlu (Rasim Nabi oghlu Gurbanov). Though many names and pen-names are formed on the grounds of inner resources of our language as more of them are borrowings, especially from Arabic and Persian origins necessity has arisen in explanation of a number of names. At the same time the semantic meaning of the toponym Shurabad is explained here as well.