Multan

See also: multan and múltán

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Punjabi ਮੁਲਤਾਨ / ملتان (multān), from Saraiki ملتان (multān), further etymology is disputed. There are multiple interpretations of this name's origin:

  • From Sanskrit मुलस्थान (mulasthāna), from मुल (mula, “a Sun deity or an ancient tribe”).[1] [2]
  • From Old Persian mulastāna (“frontier land”). [3]

Proper noun

Multan

  1. A city located in the South of the Punjab Province of Pakistan.

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References
  1. Moir, Zawahir, Shackle, Christopher (2013) Ismaili Hymns from South Asia: An Introduction to the Ginans, Routledge, →ISBN, page 186: “The name of the actual city of Multan derives from the same Sanskrit word (Sk mūlasthāna-).”
  2. Calcutta Review, Volumes 92-93, University of Calcutta, 1891, 1891, page 223
  3. Wink, André (2002) Al-Hind, Volume 1 Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th-11th Centuries‎, Brill, →ISBN, page 186

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