Nabataean

plural Nabataeans · alternative Nabatean · alternative Nabathaean · alternative Nabathean · alternative Nabathite · alternative archaic Nabatæan · alternative archaic Nabathæan

1. The ancient inhabitants of Nabataea, a region of Arabia inhabited by the Nabataeans that covers parts of northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, lying between Arabia and Syria, and stretching from the Euphrates river to the Red Sea. During the Hellenistic Period, the Nabataeans were involved in a nexus of trade routes reaching as far as Italy to the west and India to the east, which centered at their city of Petra in what is now Western Jordan near the Negev Desert from before 310 BCE until the Roman conquest in 106 CE.
2. historicalAny of a group of people who once lived around modern Jordan.

   Synonyms: Nabathite, Nabatean

alternative Nabatean · alternative Nabathaean · alternative Nabathean · alternative Nabathite · alternative archaic Nabatæan · alternative archaic Nabathæan

1. The language of those people.

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1. Relating to the Nabataean people, their kings, art, architecture, religion, language, or script.

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   2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle.