Musnad

See also: musnad

English

Etymology

From Arabic مُسْنَد (musnad), from Old South Arabian 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 (ms³nd).

Proper noun

Musnad

1. The Ancient South Arabian alphabet, which branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC.
   • 2011, Saad D. Abulhab, DeArabizing Arabia, →ISBN:

     With a stretch of imagination, some Nabataean shapes can be made to resemble those of Jazm, but so do many Musnad shapes. Still, as stated earlier, shape's similarity is not the only indication of a script origin, especially since Nabataean, Aramaic, and Musnad, share the same roots.

   • 2011, Freya Stark, The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut, →ISBN, page 203:

     But he wrote a message in the Himyar script (Musnad) with his knife on the saddle of a passing camel, and the message eventually reached his tribe in Hadhramaut.

   • 2011, Mohammed A. Qatran, Template matching method for recognition Musnad characters based on correlation analysis:

     Since the characteristics of Musnad handwriting is not famous, and some of the readers may be unfamiliar with these scripts, a brief description of the important aspects of Musnad will be presented in this section.

See also

• Kufic

Anagrams

• Dumans, Mundas, dunams, maunds, undams