ܡܪܙܒܢܐ

From Middle Persian (mlcpʾn' /⁠marz(o)bān⁠/, “margrave”). Also found as Arabic مَرْزُبَان (marzubān), Old Armenian մարզպան (marzpan).

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ܡܪܙܒܢܐ • (marzəbānā) m (plural ܡܪܙܒܢܐ (marzəbānē))

1. governor, marquis, margrave

• ܡܪܙܐ (marzā, “boundary”)

Identical to Arabic مَرْزَبَان (marzabān, “a dry measure for grain used in Aleppo”), Middle Armenian մարզպան (marzpan, “a measure for grain or liquid”). Presumably +‎ -ܢܐ (-ānā) from ܡܪܙܒܐ* (marzəḇā), found as Jewish Babylonian Aramaic מַרְזְבָא (marzəḇā), מַרְזִיבָא (marzīḇā), Classical Syriac ܡܪܙܝܒܐ (marzīḇā), Arabic مِرْزَاب (mirzāb), meaning a spout or gutter, and accordingly a spout of grain.

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ܡܪܙܒܢܐ • (marzəḇānā) m (plural ܡܪܙܒܢܐ (marzəḇānē))

1. a certain measure of grain, peck, bushel

• “mrzbn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 192a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 300b
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, page 830b