Editing Greater and Lesser Tunbs (section)

==Toponymy==
[[file:Greater tunb, Hormozgan, Iran.jpg|thumb|250px|Aerial photograph of the Greater Tunb]]
The toponymy of Tonb is in all likelihood of Persian origin. In the local Persian dialect(s) of southern Persia, the noun Tomb and''Tonb'', with its diminutive ''Tonbu'' or Tombu, as it applied to Lesser Tonb (Nāmiuh or Nābiuh Tonb), means "hill" or "low elevation" (cfr. [[Medieval Latin]] ''tumba'' and [[Ancient Greek]] ''tymbos'', with the same meaning, roots for "tomb"). The terms have the same meaning in the larger [[Dari (Persian)|Dari Persian]] language system; this explains in part the traces of ''tonb''  and ''tonbu'' in the toponyms found in the [[Bushehr]] and [[Lengeh]] regions, some 300 miles (480&nbsp;km) apart. There are other toponyms such as Tonb-e Seh in [[Tangestan County|Tangestān]] and Tonbānu on [[Qeshm]] island.<ref name= "Iranica">{{cite web
|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/tonb   
|title=  '''TONB''' (GREATER AND LESSER) 
|website= Encyclopædia Iranica 
|access-date=11 July 2010
}}</ref>

Etymologically, the word TNB is also a proper Arabic word, which means to anchor, according to the Medieval Arab linguist Ibn Fares.<ref>http://shamela.ws/browse.php/book-21710#page-1438 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712040400/http://shamela.ws/browse.php/book-21710#page-1438 |date=2017-07-12 }} Accessed 13 April 2018</ref>