Samarkand

• Samarcand (most common until the late 19th century, now dated)
• Samarqand (official name in Uzbek)

From Russian Самарка́нд (Samarkánd), from Persian سمرقند (samarqand), from Sogdian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæmə(ɹ)kænd/

Samarkand

1. A city in eastern Uzbekistan. Official name: Samarqand.

   Synonym: (ancient Greek name) Maracanda

   • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

     Look ’round thee now on Samarcand! —
     Is she not queen of Earth? her pride
     Above all cities? in her hand
     Their destinies?

   • 1922, John Dos Passos, “Antonio Machado: Poet of Castile”, in Rosinante to the Road Again, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

     In the quaver of his voice was a remembering of long muletrains jingling through the gate, queens in litters hung with patchwork curtains from Samarcand, […]

   • 1977, Eugenie and Jeffrey Gross, The Soviet Union, page 393:

     When the tsarist government crumbled with the abdication of Nicholas II in March 1917 a dual administration was established in Samarkand, as it was throughout the entire country.

   • 2001, “Samarqand”, in Encyclopedia Americana‎, page 177:

     Formerly Samarkand, the city, after the 1991 independence of Uzbekistan, adopted the Uzbek form, Samarqand.

   • 2010, Kamoludin Abdullaev, Shahram Akbarzadeh, Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan, page 316:

     Originating in the ancient city of Afrasiab, Samarqand is one of the centers of Tajik culture and history. At the time of the Soviet delimitation of Central Asia in 1924, Samarqand was included in Uzbekistan, where it is a provincial center.

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Samarkand n (proper noun, genitive Samarkands or (optionally with an article) Samarkand)

1. Samarkand (a city in Uzbekistan)

Samarkand f

1. Alternative form of Samarcanda