Crossword clues for bactrian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bactrian \Bac"tri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia. -- n. A native of Bactria.
Bactrian camel, the two-humped camel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inhabitant of Bactria," late 14c.; as a type of camel, c.1600, from Latin Bactria, ancient region in what is now northwestern Afghanistan, literally "the western province," from Persian bakhtar "the west."
Wiktionary
n. A person of Bactria. n. An extinct Eastern Iranian language which was spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria, also called Tocharistan, in northern Afghanistan.
Wikipedia
Bactrian may refer to
- Bactria
- the Bactrian language
- the Bactrian camel
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Usage examples of "bactrian".
Her Bactrian guards, now kitted out in furs and heavy armor, rode in a block around her, their lances socketed into cups at their right stirrups.
Better you give her to the lowest Egyptian offal carrier than to that sheep-rutting Bactrian nephew of yours.
Ignoring the insult would only invite further attacks on outlying Bactrian farms and trade routes.
Without pausing to catch her breath, she ran past the guards at the massive bronze doors, across a tiled and pillared hall, through the ceremonial entrance where the elite Bactrian archers stood watch, and around a startled delegation of merchants from beyond the Ganges River.
A misunderstanding is easier to pass off than a Bactrian in the arms of the princess royal.
Paris led a band of less than three hundred: Bactrian, Sogdian, Egyptian, and Greek mercenaries.
Scythian camp onto the grasslands, where they were able to secure a Bactrian gelding with an empty saddle and trailing bridle leathers.
Trained to war, the Bactrian horses cut a swath of death among the enemy, killing and injuring more than Kayan could claim with his sword.
Now a Skoloti trader has come claiming that the Pestici hold a Bactrian girl child.
It would not be amiss if I had Bactrian mares to give to some of the leaders, would it?
Prince Kayan, but if a Bactrian prince was offering a reward of a hundred prime horses to buy back a captive, it had to be he.
Syria and Cilicia to Media and Babylonia, and had two capitals, Antioch and Seleuceia-on-Tigris, and two wives, the Macedonian Stratonice and the Bactrian Apama.
Since his Bactrian camel had died, he had been on foot His guide had gone in search of water and not returned.
But thanks to Hystaspes, the Bactrian Magians were obliged to revise many of their rituals.
The Bactrian Magians who follow the Lie are amongst the strangest people on earth.