Meanings
plural Tukharas
- Synonym of Tocharian (“any member of the Tochari, a people who inhabited Bactria”)
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The memoirs of the Chinese pilgrim Hwen Thsang, in the first part of the 7th century, give many particulars of the prevalence of his religion in the numerous principalities into which the empire of the Tukharas had broken up; and it is remarkable how many of these states and their names are identical with those which still exist.
1875, The Encyclopædia Britannica, page 24Synonyms: Tocharian
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of Tocharian (“any member of the Tochari, a people who inhabited Bactria”)
Origin
- Sanskritतुखार
- EnglishTukhara
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तुखार (tukhāra).
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