ماميران

Arabic

Alternative forms

• מאמירן (māmīrān) — Judeo-Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian ancestral to Modern and Classical Persian مامیران (māmīrān), whence also Byzantine Greek μαμιρά (mamirá), μαμειρά (mameirá), μαμηρά (mamērá), Classical Syriac ܡܐܡܝܪܐܢ (māmīrān), ܡܡܝܪܐܢ (mammīrān), ܡܝܡܝܪܘܢ (mīmīrōn), ܡܡܝܪܘܢ (mammīrōn), ܡܝܡܪܘܢ (*mīmrōn), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic מַמְרוּ (mamrū).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maː.miː.raːn/

Noun

مَامِيرَان • (māmīrān) m

1. celandine
2. goldthread, Yunnan goldthread

Declension

Declension of noun مَامِيرَان (māmīrān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَامِيرَان māmīrān	الْمَامِيرَان al-māmīrān	مَامِيرَان māmīrān
Nominative	مَامِيرَانٌ māmīrānun	الْمَامِيرَانُ al-māmīrānu	مَامِيرَانُ māmīrānu
Accusative	مَامِيرَانًا māmīrānan	الْمَامِيرَانَ al-māmīrāna	مَامِيرَانَ māmīrāna
Genitive	مَامِيرَانٍ māmīrānin	الْمَامِيرَانِ al-māmīrāni	مَامِيرَانِ māmīrāni

Derived terms

• مَامِيرَان كَبِير (māmīrān kabīr)
• مَامِيرَان صَغِير (māmīrān ṣaḡīr)
• مَامِيرَان شَامِيّ (māmīrān šāmiyy)
• مَامِيرَان مَكِّيّ (māmīrān makkiyy)
• مَامِيرَان صِينِيّ (māmīrān ṣīniyy, “Coptis teeta”)

Descendants

• → Andalusian Arabic: مَيْرمَارَان (maymārān)

References

• Achundow, Abdul-Chalig (1893) “Die pharmakologischen Grundsätze (Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae) des Abu Mansur Muwaffaq bin Ali Harawi zum ersten Male nach dem Urtext übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen”, in Historische Studien aus dem Pharmakologischen Institute der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat (in German), volume III, Halle an der Saale: Tausch & Grosse, page 404 Nr. 534
• Laufer, Berthold (1919) Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products (Fieldiana, Anthropology; 15), volume 3, Chicago: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, pages 546–547