Abashev

Abashev (Russian: Аба́шев; masculine) or Abasheva (Аба́шева; feminine) is a Russian last name.[1] Variants of this last name include Abashenko (Абаше́нко), Abashin/Abashina (Аба́шин/Аба́шина), Abashkin/Abashkina (Аба́шкин/Аба́шкина), Abashichev/Abashicheva (Аба́шичев/Аба́шичева), Abashkov/Abashkova (Аба́шков/Аба́шкова), and Abashurov/Abashurova (Абашу́ров/Абашу́рова).[1]

There are two theories regarding the origins of these last names.[1] The first one relates them to nicknames "Абаш" (Abash) and "Абаша" (Abasha), the diminutive forms of which are "Абашка" (Abashka), "Абашко" (Abashko), and "Абашур" (Abashur).[1] Patronymic "Абашич" (Abashich) is also derived from these nicknames.[1] The nickname itself has either Russian or Turkic origins.[1] In Russian, it could have been given to people who overused the dialectal Russian word "або" (abo; meaning or, if only, so that)—in this case the suffix "-аш-" (-ash-) is a standard means of forming a name.[1] The Turkic origin theory is more plausible and traces the nickname to the Turkic root "aba" (meaning an uncle on the father's side), to which diminutive suffix "-š" was added.[1]

The other theory traces these last names, in particular Abashin and Abashkin,[2] to the Christian male first name Avvakum.[1]

People with the last name

See also

  • Abashevo, several rural localities in Russia

References

Notes

  1. Ganzhina, p. 10
  2. Fedosyuk, entry on "Абашин" Archived 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine.

Sources

  • И. М. Ганжина (I. M. Ganzhina). "Словарь современных русских фамилий" (Dictionary of Modern Russian Last Names). Москва, 2001. ISBN 5-237-04101-9
  • Ю. А. Федосюк (Yu. A. Fedosyuk). "Русские фамилии: популярный этимологический словарь" (Russian Last Names: a Popular Etymological Dictionary). Москва, 2006. ISBN 978-5-89349-216-3
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