jund

English

Etymology

From Arabic جُنْد‎ (jund, “army”).

Noun

jund (plural junds)

  1. (historical) An Arab military colony in the conquered lands of early caliphates.
    • 1984, Irfan Shahid, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century, page 395:
      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.
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