jund

English

Etymology

From Arabic جُنْد (jund, “army”).

Noun

jund (plural junds)

1. (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.