Urmia

Meaning

Proper Noun

• salt lake northwestern Iran (country) near Turkey
• city/and/capital West Azerbaijan (province) Iran (country) on the shore of the lake of the same name

Origin

• Probably from Syriac “Ur” (ܐܘܪ, city, a common Assyrian name for cities around Mesopotamia) and “Mia” (ܡܝܐ, water), referring to the great lake nearby.