Talk:Marada arcanum

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Etymology[edit]

Marada in Aramiac and even in Arabic means the rebels I am not sure why its not mentioned in the article?

It has nothing to do with the Greeks and I doubt a Banu Murad is related to this since most the Marada were Arameans and Ghassanids

Merge[edit]

why have the original article been deleted? moderators please pay attention to this, might be vandalism attempt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.25.144.153 (talk) 11:55, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest that we merge Mardites and Marda articles into one article. This group is disputed, there has been several theories to explain their origin, theories such as:

Aramic origin.
Greek origin.
Arab (Banu Murad) origin.
and other ethnic origins.--Aziz1005 12:37, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I do not oppose a merge, but first I'd like to see some more sources. As both articles are at the moment, not much can be determined from them and what's what. — Aššur-bāni-apli (talk · contribs) 18:36, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think a merge is prudent. The Mardaites are an ethnic group of admittedly disputed origin. The Marada were a group of self-governing communities set up by the Mardaites and others. Convention on WP is to separate articles about countries and regions from articles about people: hence German people/Germany, Bashkirs/Bashkortostan, etc. Briangotts (Contrib) 20:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merged... Name confusion only occurs in western languages as neither Syriac nor Arabic differentiate between the terms Maradites and Marada.--Rafy talk 19:10, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]