Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

transoxiana

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: tran-sox-i-ana
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An ancient portion of Central Asia, the region between the Amu Darya (Classical Oxus) and Syr Darya rivers, corresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and southwest Kazakhstan.

Example Sentences

"The success of this trade depended upon the security of four areas- the oases south of the T'ien Shan mountains in the area known as Uyghuristan, the towns of Transoxiana, the cities of Persia, and the commercial centers of Turkey."

Etymology

From Latin Transoxiana, from trans (“beyond”) + Oxus (“Amu Darya”), literally “lands beyond Oxus”, ultimately after Arabic مَا وَراءَ النَّهْر (mā warāʔa n-nahr, literally “what is beyond the river”).

Origin

Source language: Arabic

Word Breakdown

Root: مَا وَراءَ النَّهْر

Derived Forms

Transoxianan

Synonyms

Transoxania Sogdiana

Questions

What does transoxiana mean?: An ancient portion of Central Asia, the region between the Amu Darya (Classical Oxus) and Syr Darya rivers, corresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and southwest Kazakhstan.
Where does transoxiana come from?: It is traced to Arabic.

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