One way to hold this word: a tall woman on , armed, riding with a whole army of women like her. She is not from any one country you can point to on a map — she comes out of old Greek stories — but the picture is so strong that people kept reaching for it long after the stories stopped being believed. Everything else on this page can be read as that picture being lent out: lent to a real woman who towers over everyone else, lent to a river that a explorer named after her, and from the river lent again to a forest, to a green parrot, and finally to a shop that wanted a name meaning the biggest of its kind.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces the English word through Latin to Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών, and notes it may go back to an Old Persian form meaning warrior, which fits the women of the stories being known as fighters. The same entry records the familiar a- (not) + mazos (breast) story as a folk etymology of Greek origin, that is, a later explanation rather than a real source.
資料把這個字一路追到希臘文 Ἀμαζών，並提到它可能來自古波斯語裡表示「戰士」的字，正好對上傳說中她們是打仗的人。至於「a-（沒有）＋ mazos（乳房）」那個很有名的說法，資料明說是 folk etymology，也就是後人補上的解釋，不是真正的來源。
Wiktionary, "Amazon" (etymology 1)
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