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/

Proper noun

مَارِدِين or مَارْدِين • (māridīn or mārdīn) f

1. Mardin (a city in today’s Mardin Province in Turkey)
2. Mardin (a province of Turkey)
3. Mardin (a district of Diyarbekir province, Ottoman Empire; the eastern sanjak of the Diyarbekir vilayet)

Declension

Declension of noun مَارِدِين (māridīn)‎; مَارْدِين (mārdīn)

Singular	basic singular diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	مَارِدِين‎; مَارْدِين māridīn‎; mārdīn	—
Nominative	—	مَارِدِينُ‎; مَارْدِينُ māridīnu‎; mārdīnu	—
Accusative	—	مَارِدِينَ‎; مَارْدِينَ māridīna‎; mārdīna	—
Genitive	—	مَارِدِينَ‎; مَارْدِينَ māridīna‎; mārdīna	—

Descendants

• → Northern Kurdish: Mêrdîn
• → Ottoman Turkish: ماردین (Mardin)
  • Turkish: Mardin

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, 2024, Province of Diyarbekir: Photo gallery [with map]