shaharlardan

Shaharlardan is a transliteration of a Turkic phrase meaning “from cities,” used in Turkish and Azerbaijani to indicate origin. The base noun şehir/şəhər means city, and its plural şehirler/şəhərlər denotes “cities.” The ablative suffix -den/-dən marks origin, so şehirlerden/şəhərlərdən = “from the cities.” When diacritics are omitted, the result can appear as shaharlardan in ASCII texts or older orthographies.

This construction functions as a morphological phrase that expresses source rather than a standalone lexical item. It is commonly used in descriptive clauses and can be combined with pronouns or nouns, for example: Turkish phrase şehirlerden gelenler meaning “those who come from cities”; Azerbaijani phrase şəhərlədən gələnlər (or şəhərlərdən gələnlər) with the same sense. In non-diacritic texts, shaharlardan may approximate both Turkish and Azerbaijani forms.

Usage notes include its contrast with rural origin expressions such as kəndlərdən (“from villages”). The form is frequent in journalism, literature, and everyday speech to specify urban origin, mobility, or regional background. While shaharlardan is not a separate word with its own meaning beyond “from the cities,” it functions as a useful grammatical unit inside larger sentences in Turkic languages that use the Latin script with diacritics.