Nagran - ܢܓܪܐܢ

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City in S. Arabia (Syr. Nagran, or Negran; Arab. Najrān), and city in Iraq.1

Names

  • ܢܓܪܐܢ
  • Nagran2
  • ܢܰܓܪܰܐܢ3
  • نجران4
  • نَجْران7
  • Najrān2
  • Najran5, 6
  • Negran2

Place Type

settlement

Descriptions

ܡܕܺܝܢܬܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܥܰܬܝܩܬܳܐ ܒܝܰܡܰܢ ܒܓܰܪܒܰܝ ܡܰܕܢܚܳܐ ܕܝܠܳܗ̇ ܗܘܳܬ ܚܰܪܝܒܳܐ.3
مدينة قديمة كانت باليمن في الشمال الشرقي، خربة.4
388. Nagran1
an ancient city in northeastern Yaman.5
City in S. Arabia (Syr. Nagran, or Negran; Arab. Najrān), and city in Iraq.1

Attestation

Attestation of name نَجْران in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. نَجْران7 7
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Works Cited

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  • 1 L. Van Rompay388. NagranThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 302-303., p: 302-303.
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 70, 149, 197, 199, 220, 272, 293, 302–303, 333, 376, 441.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 562.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 520.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 556.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Najran.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: V:308.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Nagran — ܢܓܪܐܢ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/464.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Nagran — ܢܓܪܐܢ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published June 30, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/464.

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Entry Title: Nagran — ܢܓܪܐܢ

Additional Credit:

  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
  • Arabic description entry by Dayroyo Roger-Youssef Akhrass
  • Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson

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