Home › Words › M › mervianmervianmervian means of or related to Merv, the oasis and city of Mary, Uzbekistan.EtymologyFrom Merv + -ian.adjOf or related to Merv, the oasis and city of Mary, Uzbekistan.e.g.“We have entered the Mervian oasis, eighty miles long and eight wide, and containing about six hundred thousand hectares...” — 1893, anonymous trans. of Jules Verne, Claudius Bombarnac, Ch. 10nounA person of Merv.e.g.“The circumstances of the submission of the Mervians are furnished by the World, a small newspaper owned and edited by M. Komaroff, late chief of General Tchernaieff's staff in Servia...” — 1884' June 10, "The Russians and Merv", Brisbane Courier, p. 3Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).