Maryanaj ( fa, مريانج, also

Romanize Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...

d as Maryānaj; also known as Marjān and Marjāna) is a city in the Central District of

Hamadan County Hamadan County ( fa, شهرستان همدان) is located in Hamadan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Hamadan Hamadan () or Hamedan ( fa, همدان, ''Hamedān'') (Old Persian: Haŋgmetana, Ecbatana) is the capital city of Ham ...

, Hamadan Province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 9,442, in 2,518 families.

Name

The name ''Maryānaj'' is derived from

Middle Persian Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle Per ...

''*margānag'', from

Old Persian Old Persian is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan language, Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of Sasanian Empire). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native ...

''*margā-'' plus the suffix ''-ānag''; it is related to the Middle Persian ''mlw (vocalized /marw/) and

Parthian Parthian may be: Historical * A demonym "of Parthia", a region of north-eastern of Greater Iran * Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 AD) * Parthian language, a now-extinct Middle Iranian language * Parthian shot, an archery skill famously employed by ...

''mrg'' (vocalized /marγ‬‬/), both meaning "prairie", and to the

Avestan Avestan (), or historically Zend, is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages: Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd millennium BCE) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BCE). They are known only from their conjoined use as the scrip ...

''marəγa'' and

Modern Persian New Persian ( fa, فارسی نو), also known as Modern Persian () and Dari (), is the current stage of the Persian language spoken since the 8th to 9th centuries until now in Greater Iran and surroundings. It is conventionally divided into thre ...

مرغ (''marğ''), both meaning "plant". In the dialect of

Hamadan Hamadan () or Hamedan ( fa, همدان, ''Hamedān'') ( Old Persian: Haŋgmetana, Ecbatana) is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran. At the 2019 census, its population was 783,300 in 230,775 families. The majority of people living in Ha ...

, the name is pronounced ''Maryāneh'' (مریانه), a form influenced by Middle Persian; in the local dialect of Maryanaj itself, the name is pronounced ''Margāneh'' (مرگانه), an older form influenced by Northwestern Middle Iranian languages.

References

Populated places in Hamadan County Cities in Hamadan Province {{HamadanCounty-geo-stub