in Ancient Geography, a country of Asia, to the east of Persia, having Parthia to the north, Gedrosia to the east, to the south the Persian gulf or sea in part, and in part the Indian, called the Carmanian Sea; distinguished into Carmania Deferta, and Carmania Propria, the former lying to the south of Parthia; and to the south of that, the Propria, quite to the sea. Its name is from the Syriac, Carma, signifying a "vine," for which that country was famous, yielding clusters three feet long. Now Kerman, or Carimania, a province of modern Persia.