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Mervian
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English
Etymology
From en Merv ian.
Adjective
en now _ chiefly _ historical Of or related to Merv, the oasis and city of Mary, Uzbekistan.
1893, anonymous trans. of Jules Verne, Claudius Bombarnac, Ch. 10:
We have entered the Mervian oasis, eighty miles long and eight wide, and containing about six hundred thousand hectares...
Noun
en now _ chiefly _ historical A person of Merv.
1884 June 10, "The Russians and Merv", Brisbane Courier, p. 3:
The circumstances of the submission of the Mervians''' are furnished by the World'', a small newspaper owned and edited by M. Komaroff, late chief of General Tchernaieff's staff in Servia...