मर्तबान

Hindi

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

मर्तबान • (martabān) m (Urdu spelling مرتبان)

1. jar

Declension

Declension of मर्तबान (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	मर्तबान martabān	मर्तबान martabān
oblique	मर्तबान martabān	मर्तबानों martabānõ
vocative	मर्तबान martabān	मर्तबानो martabāno

References

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

Further reading

• Simões, Sara (2010) “A brief study concerning Martaban jars”, in Sila Tripati, editor, Maritime Contacts of the Past: Deciphering Connections amongst Communities‎^[1], New Delhi: Delta Book World, →ISBN