मर्तबान

From Mon [Term?], a small port town in Burma today called Mottama, the name of which, under the reign of the Kingdom of Pegu, in the fifteenth to seventeenth century was used to denote glazed earthenware jars sent to influential persons, Martaban jars. The term came to denote more dissimilar types of jars so that it now means merely mundane canning jars across languages. Cognate to Western Panjabi مرتبان (martabān), Persian مرتبان (martabân), Arabic مَرْطَبَان (marṭabān).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /məɾ.t̪ə.bɑːn/, [mɐɾ.t̪ɐ.bä̃ːn]

मर्तबान • (martabān) m (Urdu spelling مرتبان)

1. jar

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मर्तबान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

• Simões, Sara (2010) “A brief study concerning Martaban jars”, in Sila Tripati, editor, Maritime Contacts of the Past: Deciphering Connections amongst Communities‎, New Delhi: Delta Book World, →ISBN