مقدونیه

See also: مقدونیہ

Persian

Alternative forms

  • مقدونیا (maqduniyâ), ماقدونیا (mâqduniyâ), ماقدون (mâqdun), ماکدونیه (mâkduniye), ماکدون (mâkdun)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَقْدُونِيَا (maqdūniyā).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? maqdūníya
Dari reading? maqdūniya
Iranian reading? maġduniye
Tajik reading? maqduniya

Proper noun

Dari مقدونیه
Iranian Persian
Tajik Мақдуния

مقدونیه • (maqduniye)

  1. Macedonia (a geographic region in Southeast Europe in the Balkans, including North Macedonia and parts of Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Serbia)
  2. (historical) Macedonia (an ancient Greek kingdom in Southeast Europe)
    • 1188, Niẓāmī Ganjavī, اسکندرنامه [Iskandarnāma]‎[1]:
      ز مقدونیه روی در راه کرد
      به اسکندریه گذرگاه کرد
      zi maqdūniya rōy dar rāh kard
      ba iskandariyya guzargāh kard
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  3. Macedonia (former name of North Macedonia: a country in Southeast Europe in the Balkans)
    Synonym: مقدونیه شمالی (maqduniye-ye šomâli)
  4. Macedonia (a geographic region and former administrative region of Greece)
  5. Macedonia (a geographic region in southwestern Bulgaria; in full, Pirin Macedonia or Bulgarian Macedonia)
  6. (historical) Macedonia (a former constituent republic of Yugoslavia)

Descendants

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