ما وراء النهر
Arabic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maː wa.raː.ʔa‿n.nahr/
Proper noun
مَا وَرَاءَ النَهْر • (mā warāʔa n-nahr) m
- Transoxiana, "beyond the river" (an old name for the land in Central Asia north of the Amu Darya River).
- Coordinate term: مَا دُونَ النَّهْر (mā dūna n-nahr, “Cisoxiana, "before the river" (a part of Tokharistan east of Khurasan, north of the Hindukush mountains, and south of the Amu Darya)”)
Declension
| singular | singular invariable | ||
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| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | — | مَا وَرَاء النَّهْر mā warāʔ an-nahr |
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| nominative | — | مَا وَرَاءَ النَّهْرِ mā warāʔa n-nahri |
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| accusative | — | مَا وَرَاءَ النَّهْرِ mā warāʔa n-nahri |
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| genitive | — | مَا وَرَاءَ النَّهْرِ mā warāʔa n-nahri |
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Descendants
- → Classical Persian: مَاوَرَاءُالنَّهْر (māwarā'u-n-nahr), مَاوَرَاالنَّهْر (māwara-n-nahr)
- → Azerbaijani: Mavəraünnəhr
- → Kazakh: Мәуереннаһр (Mäuerennahr)
- → Kyrgyz: Мавераннахр (Maverannahr)
- → Ottoman Turkish: ماوراءالنهر (Mâverâünnehir)
- Turkish: Mâverâünnehir, Maveraünnehir
- → Turkmen: Mawerannahr
- → Uyghur: ماۋەرائۇننەھر (mawera'unnehr)
- → Uzbek: Movarounnahr