ماردين
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See also: ماردین
Arabic
Etymology
From Classical Syriac ܡܪܕܝܢ (merdīn, mardīn).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
مَارِدِين or مَارْدِين • (māridīn or mārdīn) f
- Mardin (a city in today’s Mardin Province in Turkey)
- Mardin (a province of Turkey)
- Mardin (a district of Diyarbekir province, Ottoman Empire; the eastern sanjak of the Diyarbekir vilayet)
Declension
Declension of noun مَارِدِين (māridīn); مَارْدِين (mārdīn)
| Singular | basic singular diptote | ||
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| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | — | مَارِدِين; مَارْدِين māridīn; mārdīn |
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| Nominative | — | مَارِدِينُ; مَارْدِينُ māridīnu; mārdīnu |
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| Accusative | — | مَارِدِينَ; مَارْدِينَ māridīna; mārdīna |
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| Genitive | — | مَارِدِينَ; مَارْدِينَ māridīna; mārdīna |
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Descendants
Further reading
- a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان , volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 390:
- Le Strange, Guy (1905) The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 96–97
- Houshamadyan – a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life, 2024, Province of Diyarbekir: Photo gallery