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17-516: The Marashiyan or Marashis ( Mazandarani : مرعشیون; Persian : مرعشیان ) were an Iranian Sayyid Twelver Shiʿite dynasty of Mazandarani origin, ruling in Mazandaran from 1359 to 1596. The dynasty was founded by Mir-i Buzurg , a Sayyid native to Dabudasht . Their capitals were Amol , Sari , and Vatashan . This Iran -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mazandarani language Mazandarani

34-439: Is a-tā with tā for determination of number ( a-tā kijā meaning a girl ). There exist some remnants of old Mazanderani indicating that, in the nominative case, female nouns used to end in a , while male nouns ended in e (as in jənā meaning the woman and mərdē meaning the man ). Grammatical gender is still present in certain modern languages closely related to Mazandarani such as Semnani , Sangesari and Zazaki . In

51-564: Is a sample list obtained from the Online Mazanderani-Persian dictionary . / a / may also range to near-open [ æ ] or a more back [ ʌ ]. Allophones of / e, u, o, ɑ / are heard as [ ɪ, ʊ, ɒ ]. / ə / can also be heard as [ ɛ ] or [ ɐ ]. / w / appears as an allophone of / v / in word-final position. / ɾ / may appear as a voiceless trill in word-final position [ r̥ ]. An occasional glottal stop / ʔ / or voiceless uvular fricative / ʁ / or voiced plosive / ɢ / may also be heard, depending on

68-544: Is closely related to Gilaki, and the two languages have similar vocabularies. The Gilaki and Mazandarani languages (but not other Iranian languages) share certain typological features with Caucasian languages (specifically the non-Indo-European South Caucasian languages ), reflecting the history, ethnic identity, and close relatedness to the Caucasus region and Caucasian peoples of Mazandaranis and Gilak people . The name Mazanderani (and variants of it) derives from

85-480: Is no distinction between the dative and accusative cases, and the nominative in the sentence takes almost no indicators but may be inferred from word order (depending on dialect it may end in a/o/e). Since Mazanderani lacks articles , there is no inflection for nouns in the sentence (no modifications for nouns). For definition, nouns take the suffix e ( me dətere meaning The daughter of mine while me dəter means my daughter ). The indefinite article for single nouns

102-513: Is rich in synonyms , some such nouns also retaining the gender they possessed in Indo-European times: for instance the words miš , gal , gerz all have the meaning of mouse , although they are not all of the same gender. While many Indo-Iranian languages use a masculine noun taking such related forms as muš or muska or mušk , in Mazandarani the most commonly used name for

119-532: The Turkmen language . The following verses are in an eastern Mazandarani dialect spoken in the Caspian littoral in northern Iran. They were transcribed and translated by Maryam Borjian and Habib Borjian . bεlεndi níš mε vεlεnd-e nεfār-ε bεlbεl xavεr biārdε nо̄bεhār ε dār-e čel-ču-rε bā r ánde nέnāle batεrkessέ dεl dā́rmo qam-e yār-ε I was sitting [on] the heights, on the lofty nefār ; The nightingale brought

136-513: The Mazandarani language, independent personal pronouns have three cases: active, passive and possessive. Conjugation (hākārden) "to work" in Mazandarani language (Sari dialect). Adpositions in Mazanderani are after words, while most of other languages including English and Persian have preposition systems in general. The only common postpositions that sometimes become preposition are Še and tā . Frequently used postpositions are: The list below

153-609: The dialect. Mazanderani is commonly written in the Perso-Arabic script . However, some use the Roman alphabet , for example in SMS messages. Spoken in a territory sheltered by the high Alborz mountains, Mazanderani preserves many ancient Indo-European words no longer in common use in modern Iranian languages such as Persian . Listed below are a few common Mazanderani words of archaic, Indo-European provenance with Vedic cognates. Mazandarani

170-624: The living Iranian languages , Mazanderani has one of the longest written traditions, from the tenth to the fifteenth century. This status was achieved during the long reign of the independent and semi-independent rulers of Mazandaran in the centuries after the Arab invasion. The rich literature of this language includes books such as Marzban Nameh (later translated into Persian) and the poetry of Amir Pazevari. Use of Mazanderani, however, has been in decline for some time. Its literary and administrative prominence had begun to diminish in favor of Persian by

187-469: The mazandarani language. The native people of Galugah , Behshahr , Neka , Sari , Shahi , Babol , Amol , Nowshahr , Chalus , Kelardasht , Abbasabad and Tonekabon in Mazandaran province are Mazanderani people and speak the Mazanderani language. Mazanderani is an inflected and genderless language . It is SOV, but in some tenses it may be SVO, depending on the particular dialect involved. Just as in other modern Iranian languages , there

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204-708: The mazandarani language. The native people of Shemiranat , Damavand and Firuzkuh in Tehran province are Mazandarani and speak the mazandarani language. The native people of north of Karaj and Taleqan in Alborz province are Mazandarani and speak the mazandarani language. The people of east of Alamut in Qazvin province are Mazandarani and speak the mazandarani language. The native of people of Aradan , Garmsar , Shahmirzad and north of Damghan in Semnan province are Mazandarani and speak

221-598: The mouse is the feminine noun gal . Another example relates to the cow, the most important animal in the symbolism of Indo-European culture: in Mazanderani there are more than 1000 recognized words used for different types of cow. The table below lists some specimens of this rich vocabulary. In Mazandaran there are even contests held to determine those with the greatest knowledge of this bovine nomenclature. In Iran, there are some popular companies and products, like Rika (boy) or Kija (girl), which take their name from Mazanderani words. There are some Mazanderani loanwords in

238-538: The name of the historical region of Mazandaran ( Mazerun in Mazanderani), which was part of former Kingdom of Tapuria . People traditionally call their language Tabari , as the Tabari themselves do. The name Tapuri / Tabari (which was the name of an ancient language spoken somewhere in former Tapuria) is now used in preference to the name Mazandarani by the young. However, both Gilan and Mazanderan formed part of

255-523: The news that it is early spring. Tell the tree branches not to lament so much, I have a blasted heart for the care of the beloved. bεlεnd-e bālxεnε, bεlεnd-e lamε vέne sar ništ bío Āl-e Mohammεd har ki mεn o tέrε bázunε tomεt vεšúnnε bákuše Darviš Mohammεd The lofty balcony, the long mat; On its top had sat the Dynasty of Muhammad. Whoever lay the blame on you and me, May Dervish Muhammad kill him (lit. 'them')! In dates given below, A.P. denotes

272-448: The state known as Tapuria. The earliest references to the language of Mazandaran, called Tabari, are to be found in the works of the early Muslim geographers. Al-Muqaddasī (or Moqaisi, 10th century), for example, notes: "The languages of Komish and Gurgan are similar, they use hā , as in hā-dih and hāk-un , and they are sweet [to the ear], related to them is the language of Tabaristan, [similar] save for its speediness." Among

289-661: The time of the integration of Mazandaran into the national administration in the early seventeenth century. The Mazanderani language is closely related to Gilaki and the two languages have similar vocabularies. In 1993, according to Ethnologue , there were three million native Mazanderani speakers. The dialects of Mazanderani are Saravi, Amoli, Baboli, Ghaemshahri, Chaloosi, Nuri, Shahsavari, Ghasrani, Shahmirzadi, Damavandi, Firoozkoohi, Astarabadi and Katouli. The native people of Aliabad-e Katul , Gorgan , Kordkuy and Bandar-e Gaz in Golestan province are Mazandarani and speak

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