Ghassanian

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English

Adjective

Ghassanian (not comparable)

  1. Of the tribe of Ghassanids.
    • 1999, Glen Warren Bowersock, Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 469:
      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 []

Noun

Ghassanian (plural Ghassanians)

  1. Ghassanid (member of an particular Arab tribe)
    • 1940, U. Wayriffe, Arabica & Islamica:
      [] 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 []