مرند

See also: مربد and مريد

Arabic

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مرند and مقاطعة مرند

Etymology

Unknown. The Ancient Greek name is transmitted as Μοροῦνδα (Moroûnda) by Ptolemy, and the Μαροῦνδαι (Maroûndai) are said to have occupied territories up to Lake Urmia in the same, while they have been identified with the मुरुण्ड (muruṇḍa), शकमुरुण्ड (śakamuruṇḍa) of Sanskrit sources. The Murunda dynasty was extirpated in the 3rd century CE by the Gupta Empire.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ma.rand/

Proper noun

مَرَنْد • (marand) f

Marand (a city in East Azerbaijan, Iran)
- a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, web 1/136, pages 374 m–u:
  وأما أرمينية فإنها كورة جليلة رسمها أرميني بن كنظر بن يافث بن نوح ومنها ترتفع الستور والزلاليُّ الرفيعة كثيرة الخصائص قصبتها دَبِيل ومن مدنها: بَدْلِيس، خِلَاط، أَرْجِيش، بَرْكَرِي، خُوَيُّ، سَلَمَاس، أُرْمِيَة، دَاخَرَّقَان، مَرَاغَة، أَهْرُ، مَرَنْد، سَِنْجَان، قالِيقَلَا، قندرية، قَلْعَة يُونِس، نورين.
  As for Armenia, she is a majestic expanse, originally sketched and contoured by ʔArmīnī, the son of Ashkenaz, himself a descendant of Japheth, one of the sons of Noah. In Armenia, curtains, draperies, and rugs multifarious and fine hang down, the rod being Dabīl. Among her localities are Badlīs , Ḵilāṭ , ʔArjīš , Barkarī , Ḵuway , Salamās , ʔUrmiyah , Dāḵarraqān, Marāḡah, ʔAhr, Marand, Sinjān, Qālīqalā, Qandariyyah, Qalʕat Yūnus, Nūrīn.
- a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان ‎, volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 503:
Marand County (a county of East Azerbaijan, Iran) (مُقَاطَعَة مَرَنْد (muqāṭaʕa marand))

Declension

Declension of noun مَرَنْد (marand)

Singular	basic singular diptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	مَرَنْد marand	—
Nominative	—	مَرَنْدُ marandu	—
Accusative	—	مَرَنْدَ maranda	—
Genitive	—	مَرَنْدَ maranda	—