Samarkand

English

Downtown Samarkand with Bibi-Khanym Mosque

Alternative forms

• Samarcand
• Samarqand

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sogdian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæmə(ɹ)kænd/

Proper noun

Samarkand

1. A historical city in eastern Uzbekistan.

Synonyms

• Maracanda

Translations

city in Uzbekistan

• Amharic: ሳማርቃንድ (samarḳand)
• Arabic: سَمَرْقَنْد (samarqand), (archaic) سُمَرَان f (sumaran)

  Egyptian Arabic: سمرقند f (samarqand)

• Aragonese: Sarmagant
• Armenian: Սամարղանդ (Samarġand)
• Asturian: Samarcanda f
• Avar: Самаркъанд (Samarqxʼand)
• Azerbaijani:

  Cyrillic: Сәмәргәнд

  Roman: Səmərqənd (az)

• Bashkir: Сәмәрҡәнд (Səmərqənd)
• Belarusian: Самарканд m (Samarkand)
• Bengali: সমরকন্দ (śomrokondo)
• Bulgarian: Самарканд m (Samarkand)
• Catalan: Samarcanda f
• Cebuano: Samarqand
• Chechen: Самарка́нд (Samarkánd)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撒馬爾罕／撒马尔罕 (zh) (Sǎmǎ'ěrhǎn), 撒马尔罕 (zh) (Sǎmǎěrhǎn)

• Eastern Mari:
• Esperanto: Samarkando
• Finnish: Samarkand (fi)
• French: Samarcande (fr) f
• Galician: Samarcanda f
• Georgian: სამარყანდი (samarq̇andi)
• German: Samarkand n
• Greek: Σαμαρκάνδη (Samarkándi)

  Ancient: Μαράκανδα f (Marákanda)

• Hebrew: סמרקנד
• Hindi: समरक़न्द (samarqand)
• Hungarian: Szamarkand
• Italian: Samarcanda f
• Japanese: サマルカンド (Samarukando)
• Karakalpak: Samarqand
• Kazakh: Самарқан (Samarqan)
• Korean: 사마르칸트 (Samareukandeu)
• Kumyk: Самаркъанд (Samarqand)
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• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: Самаркан (Samarkan)
• Latin: Maracanda f
• Latvian: Samarkanda f
• Lithuanian: Samarkandas m
• Macedonian: Самарканд m (Samarkand)
• Maithili: समरकन्द (samarᵊkanda)
• Malayalam: സമർഖണ്ഡ് (samaṟkhaṇḍŭ)
• Marathi: समरकंद (samarkanda)
• Mongolian: Самарка́нд (Samarkánd)
• Nepali: समरकन्द (samarakanda)
• Occitan: Samarcanda f
• Old Turkic: Semizkend
• Ossetian: Самарка́нд (Samarkánd)
• Persian: سمرقند (samarqand)
• Polish: Samarkanda (pl) f
• Portuguese: Samarcanda f, Samarkand f, Samarcand f, Samarcande f, Samarkande f, Samarkanda f
• Punjabi: ਸਮਰਕੰਦ (samrakand)
• Russian: Самарка́нд (ru) m (Samarkánd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Самарканд m

  Roman: Samarkand (sh) m

• Sogdian: Smʼrknδh
• Spanish: Samarcanda (es) f, Samarkanda f
• Tajik: Самарқанд (tg) (Samarqand)
• Tamil: சமர்கந்து (camarkantu)
• Tatar: Сәмәрка́нд (Sämärkánd)
• Thai: ซามาร์คันด์ (Saa maa-kan)
• Turkish: Semerkant
• Ukrainian: Самарканд m (Samarkand)
• Uyghur: سەمەرقەند (semerqend)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: Самарқанд (Samarqand)

  Roman: Samarqand

• Walloon: Samarcande f
• Yiddish: סאַמאַרקאַנד (samarkand)
• Zari: Semerqand

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German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ant

Proper noun

Samarkand n

1. Samarkand (a city in Uzbekistan)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Samarkand f

1. Alternative form of Samarcanda