Ghassanian
English
Adjective
Ghassanian (not comparable)
- 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)
- 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[sic] […]