Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to an ancient Iranian people whose homeland was in the area around Samarqand and who had established settlements throughout Chinese Turkistan before the advent of Islam.
- n. A member of this people.
- n. The extinct Middle Iranian language of this people, known chiefly from texts and inscriptions dating from the second to the ninth centuries A.D.
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Etymologies
- Latin Sogdiānus, from Greek Sogdoi, Sogdians, from Old Persian Sug(u)da-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The first and most heavily fortified was a stronghold known as the Sogdian Rock on top of a mountain hundreds of feet high surrounded on all sides by precipitous cliffs.”
“With the troops under his own command he marched against the fortress called the Sogdian Rock, seated on an isolated hill, so precipitous as to be deemed inaccessible, and so well supplied with provisions as to defy a blockade.”
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“Some, including Avestan, the language of the Zoroastrians and their sacred religious texts, and Sogdian, which gained wide use as a lingua franca among merchants and traders along the ancient Silk Route, are extinct.”
“He speculates that communities of Sogdian traders might have adapted rituals and costumes to caravan life.”
“By this point the Sogdian leader and his officers had fled, so the Macedonian captain left most of his troops encircling the area and entered the town with only a handful of men.”
“This immoderate love took the form of dragging her through the steppes and over mountains with him on his raids, whereas most Sogdian commanders would have left their wives at home.”
“Once again he was no closer to a solution of the Sogdian situation than he had been the previous autumn.”
“The Sogdian lord ambushed them outside the city and slew almost everyone, including Aristonicus.”
“Among the captives from the Sogdian Rock was the family of Oxyartes, a Bactrian nobleman who had fought against Alexander.”
“He had chosen a strategic retreat across the Oxus River into Sogdiana accompanied by Spitamenes, a Sogdian lord who had served the Persians for years.”
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