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There the women are free to work and hold positions of power, while the men are kept sequestered in prisons called mardanas this is a play on words: in Hossain's time, women were relinquished to a part of the house called zenana, and mard is the Urdu word for man.

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March 29, 2009 at 8:45 am mard waid has a gold mine and i hope this wont fall like crossgen did .

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Jawan-mard — un giovane, a brave See vol. iv., p. 208.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Thou hast mard all by this unadvised speaking, even when the worke was almost fully finished.

The Decameron 2004

To tell how your mead of, mard, is made of. 373:33ff

languagehat.com: BY NO MANNER OF MEANS. 2004

My uncle swore many oaths, how we had ruined the dog for ever, made him vicious, spoiled him for showing purposes, and been altogether a pack of mard-soft fools not fit to be trusted with any dog but a gutter-mongrel.

Rex 1921

It has been compared with the Persian _Mardak, _ the diminutive of _mard, _ "a man," and with the Arabic _Mirrich, _ which is the name of the planet Mars.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

[FN#13] Doubtless for Jawan-mard -- un giovane, a brave See vol. iv., p. 208.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

"A pretty manoeuvre," said the woman: "leave my mard {90a} in the hands of you and that limmer, {90b} who has never been true to us: I should find him strangled or his throat cut when I came back."

Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842

You know how the 'perlitical correkness gawn mard' brigade have the habit of finishing their diatribes about EUSSR and NewZanu with 'you couldn't make it up? sixstring 28 February 2011 4:04PM

The Guardian World News Josh Halliday 2011