boy name · Source-indexed record
Mardin
ماردين
Mardin is the name of a city in Kurdistan of Turkey (eastern Turkey). The word itself may originally be from Syriac with the meaning of fortress.
- Arabic spelling
- ماردين
- Pronunciation
- MAHR-dihnAuto-generated reading guide
- Origin
- ArabicLinguistic inference
- Gender
- boy
- First letter
- M
- Source
- Muslim Names Dataset (CC0 1.0)
About Mardin
Mardin is listed in the CC0 Muslim Names Dataset as a male name. The source records its meaning as “Mardin is the name of a city in Kurdistan of Turkey (eastern Turkey). The word itself may originally be from Syriac with the meaning of fortress.”. Its origin label is inferred from the published script or etymological signal. Its reader-friendly phonetic spelling is generated deterministically from the published transliteration and should be reviewed for names with complex or region-specific pronunciation.
Meaning and Arabic spelling are sourced from the Muslim Names Dataset or, where provided, the record-specific provenance URL. Origin labels are source-stated where available or transparently inferred from the published script or etymological signal. Phonetic respellings are generated reading guides, not native-speaker recordings. See Sources & methodology for data limitations.