مرزبان

Arabic

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mlcpʾn' /marz(o)bān/, margrave), whence Persian مرزبان (marzbân); from [script needed] (mlc /marz/, boundary) (Persian مرز (marz)) and -pʾn' (-bān, -guard) (Persian بان (-bân)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mar.zu.baːn/
  • IPA(key): /mar.za.baːn/

Noun

مَرْزُبَان or مَرْزَبَان • (marzubān or marzabān) m (plural مَرَازِبَة (marāziba))

(historical)
  1. margrave, march warden, satrap, a Sassanian governor of a frontier province
Declension

Etymology 2

Also found in Classical Syriac ܡܪܙܒܢܐ (marzəbānā, a serving of grain) and Middle Armenian մարզպան (marzpan, a measure of grain or liquid). This is probably a suffigation of the word treated at مِرْزَاب (mirzāb, spout), i.e. “a spout full of grain”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mar.za.baːn/

Noun

مَرْزَبَان • (marzabān) m (plural مَرَازِيب (marāzīb))

(obsolete, Medieval  Aleppo)
  1. a dry measure for grain, a fourth of a مَكُّوك (makkūk)
Declension

References

  • mrzbn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), مرزبان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1075
  • Saiden, A. S. (1978) The Arithmetic of Al-Uqlīdisī: The Story of Hindu-Arabic Arithmetic as told in Kitāb al-Fuṣūl fī al-Ḥisāb al-Hindī, Dordrecht & Boston: Reidel, →ISBN, pages 379–380

Persian

Noun

مرزبان (marz-bân)

  1. border guard
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