سمرقند

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.mar.qand/

Proper noun

سَمَرْقَنْد • (samarqand) f

1. Samarkand (a city in eastern Uzbekistan)

Declension

Declension of noun سَمَرْقَنْد (samarqand)

singular	basic singular diptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	—	سَمَرْقَنْد samarqand	—
nominative	—	سَمَرْقَنْدُ samarqandu	—
accusative	—	سَمَرْقَنْدَ samarqanda	—
genitive	—	سَمَرْقَنْدَ samarqanda	—

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سمرقند (samarqand).

Proper noun

سمرقند • (samarqand)

1. Samarkand (a city in modern-day Uzbekistan)

Descendants

• Uyghur: سەمەرقەند (semerqend)
• Uzbek: Samarqand

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سمرقند (samarqand), from Middle Persian 𐮐𐮋𐮊𐮉𐮌𐮃 (smlknd /⁠samarkand⁠/), itself from Sogdian 𐼼𐼺𐼰𐽀𐼸𐼻𐼹𐼳 (smʾrknδh /⁠*Smā́rkąθ⁠/).

Proper noun

سمرقند • (semerkand)

1. Samarkand (a city in eastern Uzbekistan)

Derived terms

• سمرقندی (semerkandî, “pertaining to Samarkand”)

Descendants

• Turkish: Semerkant

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سمرقند”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 2671
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سمرقند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1077

Persian

Alternative forms

• سمرکند (samarkand)

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐮐𐮋𐮊𐮉𐮌𐮃 (smlknd /⁠samarkand⁠/), borrowed from Sogdian 𐼼𐼺𐼰𐽀𐼸𐼻𐼹𐼳 (smʾrknδh /⁠*Smā́rkąθ⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /sa.mar.ˈqand/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.mäɾ.qán̪d̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.mäɾ.qán̪d̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sä.mäɾ.qán̪d̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sä.mäɾ.qán̪d̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæ.mæɹ.ɢǽn̪d̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.mäɾ.qán̪d̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	samarqand
Dari reading?	samarqand
Iranian reading?	samarġand
Tajik reading?	samarqand

Proper noun

سمرقند • (samarqand / samarġand) (Tajik spelling Самарқанд)

1. Samarkand (the regional capital of the Samarkand region, Uzbekistan)
2. Samarkand (a region of Uzbekistan)

Derived terms

• سمرقندی (samarqandi)

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: Səmərqənd
• → Chagatai: سمرقند (samarqand)
  • Uyghur: سەمەرقەند (semerqend)
  • Uzbek: Samarqand
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: समरक़ंद (samarqand)

  Urdu: سمرقند (samarqand)

• → Ottoman Turkish: سمرقند (semerkand)
  • Turkish: Semerkant
• → Russian: Самарка́нд (Samarkánd), Самарка́ндъ (Samarkánd) — pre-1918 spelling
  • → English: Samarkand

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سمرقند (samarqand).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.məɾ.qənd̪/

Proper noun

سمرقند • (samarqand) ? (Hindi spelling समरक़ंद)

1. Samarkand (a city in eastern Uzbekistan)