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I encountered this name as the name of recently-deceased Russian poet Fazu Aliyeva. She was not an ethnic Russian, but an Avar from Dagestan (a mostly Muslim republic of Russia located on the border with Azerbaijan). I'm guessing it could be of Caucasian origin (Avar is a Caucasian language), or possibly Turkic or Iranian . Does anyone have a clue as to what the name Fazu means?

This message was edited 6/11/2016, 7:12 AM