jund

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noun

An Arab military colony in the conquered lands of early caliphates.

OriginArabic جُنْد →
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Meanings

nounjund (plural junds)

plural junds

  1. historicalAn Arab military colony in the conquered lands of early caliphates.

    After the Muslim conquest of Oriens in the thirties, the various Arab tribes were settled in the famous four junds, military circumscriptions into which Syria was divided.

    1984, Irfan Shahid, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century, page 395

Origin

  1. Arabicجُنْد“army”
  2. Englishjund

From Arabic جُنْد (jund, “army”).

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