مرند

See also: مربد and مريد

Arabic

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

1. Marand (a city in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran)
   • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎^[1], 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 [Baghesh], Ḵilāṭ [Xlat], ʔArjīš [Arjesh], [the small town of] Barkarī [east of Ḵilāṭ], Ḵuway [Xoy], Salamās [Salamas], ʔUrmiyah [Urmia], Dāḵarraqān, Marāḡah, ʔAhr, Marand, Sinjān, Qālīqalā, Qandariyyah, Qalʕat Yūnus, Nūrīn.

   • a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān]‎^[2], volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 503:
2. Marand County (a county of East Azerbaijan Province, Iran) (مُقَاطَعَة مَرَنْد (muqāṭaʕa marand))

Declension

Declension of noun مَرَنْد (marand)

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

Further reading

• Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna (1981) Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum: Volume III: Inscriptions of the early Gupta Kings, Janpath, New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, page 28
• Burdak, Laxman (2019) “Murunda”, in Jatland
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1904) Die altarmenischen Ortsnamen (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 346–347
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1904) Die altarmenischen Ortsnamen (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, page 451
• Minorsky, Vladimir (1991) “Marand”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition, volume 6, Leiden: Brill, pages 504–505, which is not different here to the article in the first edition, volume 5, pages 266–268

Persian

Etymology

Unknown, see Arabic مَرَنْد (marand) above.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ma.ɾanð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.ɾän̪d̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.ɾän̪d̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä.ɾän̪d̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mä.ɾän̪d̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæ.ɹæn̪d̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.ɾän̪d̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	marand
Dari reading?	marand
Iranian reading?	marand
Tajik reading?	marand

Proper noun

مرند • (marand)

1. Marand (a city in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran)
2. Marand County (a county of East Azerbaijan Province, Iran)