ماردين
See also: ماردین
Arabic
Etymology
From Classical Syriac ܡܪܕܝܢ (merdīn, mardīn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maː.ri.diːn/, /maːr.diːn/
- (in the local dialect with imāla) IPA(key): /meːr.diːn/
- Rhymes: -iːn
Proper noun
مَارِدِين or مَارْدِين • (māridīn or mārdīn) f
- Mardin (a city in today’s Mardin Province in Turkey)
- Mardin (a province of Turkey)
- Mardin (a district of Diyarbekir province, Ottoman Empire; the eastern sanjak of the Diyarbekir vilayet)
Declension
| singular | basic singular diptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | — | مَارِدِين; مَارْدِين māridīn; mārdīn |
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| nominative | — | مَارِدِينُ; مَارْدِينُ māridīnu; mārdīnu |
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| accusative | — | مَارِدِينَ; مَارْدِينَ māridīna; mārdīna |
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| genitive | — | مَارِدِينَ; مَارْدِينَ māridīna; mārdīna |
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Descendants
Further reading
- a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān][1], volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 390:
- Le Strange, Guy (1905) The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 96–97
- Houshamadyan – a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life, 2025, Province of Diyarbekir: Photo gallery [with map]