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Mervian

Mervian adjective: of or related to Merv, the oasis and city of Mary, Uzbekistan.

Adjective

Mervian (comparative more Mervian, superlative most Mervian)

  1. (historical) Of or related to Merv, the oasis and city of Mary, Uzbekistan.
    • We have entered the Mervian oasis, eighty miles long and eight wide, and containing about six hundred thousand hectares...1893, anonymous trans. of Jules Verne, Claudius Bombarnac, Ch. 10

Noun

Mervian (plural Mervians)

  1. (historical) A person of Merv.
    • The circumstances of the submission of the Mervians are furnished by the World, a small newspaper owned and edited by M. Komaroff, late chief of General Tchernaieff's staff in Servia...1884' June 10, "The Russians and Merv", Brisbane Courier, p. 3

Forms of Mervian

Adjective
comparativemore Mervian
superlativemost Mervian
Noun
pluralMervians

Origin of Mervian

From Merv + -ian.

Questions about Mervian

What does Mervian mean?
Mervian means of or related to Merv, the oasis and city of Mary, Uzbekistan.
What part of speech is Mervian?
Mervian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Mervian in the dictionary

  1. Merv
  2. Merva
  3. merveilleuse
  4. merveilleuses
  5. merveilleux
  6. Mervian
  7. Mervians
  8. Merville
  9. Mervin
  10. Mervine
  11. Mervines

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