Ghassanian

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adjective

Of the tribe of Ghassanids.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveGhassanian (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf the tribe of Ghassanids.

    This defeat turned out to be disastrous for the Ghassanids. After the disappearance of the Ghassanid state, isolated Ghassanian princes continued to reign in some oases and castles[…]

    1999, Glen Warren Bowersock, Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 469
nounGhassanian (plural Ghassanians)

plural Ghassanians

  1. Ghassanid (member of a particular Arab tribe)

    […] send messages to the Byzantine Emperor, the King of Persia, […] and two Christian Arab chiefs - one a Ghassanian on the Syrian frontier , the other in Yemama^([sic])[…]

    1940, U. Wayriffe, Arabica & Islamica
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