Schirvania

Latin

Etymology

From Classical Persian شِرْوَان (širwān).

Proper noun

Schirvānia f sg (genitive Schirvāniae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Shirvan (a historical region of the eastern Caucasus, historically Persian and now in the Republic of Azerbaijan)
    • 1760, Adjumentum memoriae manuale‎[1], page 278:
      1732[:] 21 Jan. in Gulau [Gilan] zu Raiſch [Rascht] inter Sophi Perſiæ, & Annam Moſcoviæ: Schirvaniæ, liberique in Perſiam ſine telonii ſolutione commercii Aſſertricem.
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    • 1766, Apparatus eruditionis ad jurisprudentiam praesertim ecclesiasticam‎[2], page 53:
      Schirvaniam invaſerunt
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    • 1773, Nova acta physico-medica‎[3], page 199:
      De Plantis in Provinciis Perſicis Dagiſtaniae, Schirvaniae et Hircaniae
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Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Schirvānia
genitive Schirvāniae
dative Schirvāniae
accusative Schirvāniam
ablative Schirvāniā
vocative Schirvānia
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