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

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sä.mäɾ.qǽn̪d̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [sä.mäɾ.qǽn̪d̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [sä.mäɾ.qǽn̪d̪̥]

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

Proper noun

Dari سمرقند
Iranian Persian
Tajik Самарқанд

سمرقند • (samarqand)

  1. Samarkand (a city in eastern Uzbekistan)

Derived terms

  • سمرقندی (samarqandi)

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سمرقند (samarqand).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

سمرقند • (samarqand) ? (Hindi spelling समरक़ंद)

  1. Samarkand (a city in eastern Uzbekistan)
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