Browse dictionary
Showing 1-20 of 99 results in 99 entries
1. Adeni, n. and adj. View full entry 1950
...A native or inhabitant of Aden....
2. Afghan, n. and adj. View full entry 1625
...A Pashtun, in later use esp. one from Afghanistan.More generally: a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan; a person of Afghani descent. Cf. Afghani3....
3. Afghani, n. and adj. View full entry 1826
...The Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Afghan people; = Pashto...
4. Afridi, n. and adj. View full entry 1784
...A member of a Pashto-speaking people inhabiting the mountainous region between Pakistan and Afghanistan....
5. Agaw, n. and adj. View full entry 1790
...(The name of) a group of various related peoples of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti; a member of one of these peoples....
6. Alawi, n. and adj. View full entry 1874
...A member of a branch of the Nusayri sect based mainly in northern Syria. Cf. Alawite...
7. Alawite, n. and adj. View full entry 1922
...= Alawi...
8. Amorite, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1535
...A member of any of a group of Semitic tribes who lived in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria in the third and second millennia b.c., and who are described in Biblical...
9. Babi, n. and adj. View full entry 1850
...A member of a religious movement founded in Persia (modern Iran) in 1844 by Sayyid Ali Muhammad of Shiraz (‘the Bab’), which emphasizes the coming of a new prophet or...
10. Baluch | Baluchi, n. and adj. View full entry 1616
...An inhabitant or native of Baluchistan, a mountainous region comprised of parts of south-eastern Iran, western Pakistan, and south-western Afghanistan....
11. Bedu, n. and adj. View full entry 1912
...(Of or pertaining to) a Bedouin....
12. Bohairic, adj. and n. View full entry 1830
...The designation of the classical or standard form of Coptic spoken in Alexandria and the north-western Delta, and of the version of the Bible (the official version of the Bible of the...
13. Danakil, n. and adj. View full entry 1875
...A member of a widely spread Hamitic people of north-eastern Ethiopia....
14. enˈsophic, adj. View full entry 1693
...(See quot. 1693.)...
15. Farsi, n. and adj. View full entry 1878
...= Parsee2....
16. Fatimite, adj. and n. View full entry 1728
...Descended from Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad by his first wife, Khadija....
17. Gelalaean, adj. View full entry 1780
...Of or pertaining to Gelal-ed-Din, ‘Glory of the Faith’, a title of Malek Shah, Sultan of Khorasan, and reformer of the Persian calendar in 1079....
18. Ghuzz, n. and adj. View full entry 1845
...= Oghuz...
19. Haredi, adj. and n. View full entry 1983
...Of, belonging to, or relating to any of a number of Orthodox Jewish groups or communities (including the Hasidim) which adhere strictly to the traditional form of Jewish law and rejection of...
20. Hattic, adj. and n. View full entry 1924
...Of or pertaining to the Hatti or their language, formerly regarded as conterminous with the Hittites, now as a section of them....
