In toponymy, bāḡ occurs frequently in either the fore or the rear position, e.g., Bāḡ-e Amīr, Bāḡ-e Now, or Kārīzbāḡ, Nowbāḡ. In Turcophone areas, the same suffixed form is sometimes found, e.g., Qarābāḡ, but less frequently than the compound ending, e.g., Malekbāḡī, Morādbāḡī, which also appears in Kurdish toponyms and tribal names, e.g., Gelbāḡī (explained by folk etymology in the Šaraf-nāma as “come into the garden!”). Derivatives such as bāḡča, bāḡestān, bāḡū(k) also enter into place-names.
