seljuck
/sɛlˈd͡ʒʌk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "One circumstance... which must have greatly contributed to the preservation of written and traditional history in the East, is pride of blood; upon which their great men value themselves far beyond the proudest European grandee. Genealogy has consequently been cultivated with singular attention.—Seljuck, the founder of the Seljuckian dynasty of the Turks, claimed kinship to Afrasiab, an ancient King of Scythia or Touran."
- "Using the Seljucks and Osmanlies—that is, the western Turanians—as its instruments, the Semitic faith of the crescent carried these barbarian converts to the supremacy of western Asia, and ultimately to the conquest of Constantinople."
- "At Mowr, Nizam Oolmulk, the Great Vizier of Malek Shah, of the Seljuck dynasty, established a school, and since that time, as the Turcomauns assured Wolff, a school is kept up there though centuries have passed."
- "Internal dissensions and the invasion of the Seljuck Turks put an end to the Bagration dynasty, and its last remaining scion became King of Georgia."
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