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Samarkand

Samarkand

English

Downtown Samarkand with Bibi-Khanym Mosque

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Samarkand

A historical city in east Uzbekistan.

Synonyms

Maracanda

Translations

city in Uzbekistan

Arabic: سَمَرْقَنْد ‎(samarqand), (archaic) سُمَرَان f ‎(sumaran)
Egyptian Arabic: سمرقند f ‎(samarqand)
Armenian: Սամարղանդ ‎(Samarłand)
Azeri:

Cyrillic: Сәмәргәнд

Roman: Səmərqənd (az)
Bashkir: Сәмәрҡәнд ‎(Sämärqänd)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 撒馬爾罕 (zh), 撒马尔罕 (zh) ‎(Sǎmǎěrhǎn)
Esperanto: Samarkando
Finnish: Samarkand (fi)
French: Samarcande (fr) f
German: Samarkand n
Greek: Σαμαρκάνδη ‎(Samarkándi)
Ancient: Μαράκανδα f ‎(Marákanda)
Hebrew: סמרקנד
Hungarian: Szamarkand

Italian: Samarcanda f
Japanese: サマルカンド ‎(Samarukando)
Kazakh: Самарқан ‎(Samarqan)
Korean: 사마르칸트 ‎(Samareukandeu)
Kumyk: Самаркъанд ‎(Samarqand)
Persian: سمرقند ‎(Samarqand)
Polish: Samarkanda (pl) f
Portuguese: Samarcanda f, Samarkand f, Samarcand f, Samarcande f, Samarkande f, Samarkanda f
Russian: Самарка́нд (ru) m ‎(Samarkánd)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Самарканд m

Roman: Samarkand (sh) m
Spanish: Samarcanda (es), Samarkanda
Tajik: Самарқанд (tg) ‎(Samarqand)
Thai: ซามาร์คันด์
Uyghur: سەمەرقەند ‎(semerqend)
Uzbek: Samarqand, Самарқанд
Yiddish: סאַמאַרקאַנד ‎(samarkand)

German

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ant

Proper noun

Samarkand n

Samarkand (city in Uzbekistan)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Samarkand f

Alternative form of Samarcanda