مرزبان

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mlcpʾn' /⁠marz(o)bān⁠/, “margrave”), whence Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

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

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

1. marzban, margrave, march warden, satrap, a Sassanian governor of a frontier province

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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”.

• IPA^(key): /mar.za.baːn/

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

1. (Medieval Aleppo) a dry measure for grain, a fourth of a مَكُّوك‎ (makkūk), ca. 26.25 liters
2. (Medieval Mesopotamia) a liquid measure for wine, a sixteenth of a مِشْقَاع‎ (mišqāʕ), 1.875 liters

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “mrzbn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Hinz, Walther (1955, 1970) Islamische Maße und Gewichte: umgerechnet ins metrische System (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung: der nahe und der mittlere Osten; Ergänzungsband 1, Heft 1) (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 45
• 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

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mlcpʾn' /⁠marz(o)bān⁠/, “margrave”), from [script needed] (mlc /⁠marz⁠/, “boundary”) (Persian مرز‎ (marz)) and [script needed] (-pʾn' /⁠-bān⁠/, “-guard”) (Persian بان‎ (-bân)). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian մարզպան (marzpan), Old Georgian მარზაპანი (marzaṗani), მაზრაპანი (mazraṗani), Classical Syriac ܡܪܙܒܢܐ‎ (marzəbānā), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Byzantine Greek μαρζαβανᾶς (marzabanâs), μαρζανάβος (marzanábos).

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مرزبان • (marz-bân)

1. border guard
2. (historical) marzban

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մարզպան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 282–283
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 193