jund
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Arabic جُنْد (jund, “army”).
Noun[edit]
jund (plural junds)
- (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.