seljook
/sɛl.d͡ʒuːk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The sons of Seljook, when sultáns of a vast empire, retained the wandering habits of their ancestor, who pitched his shepherd's tent upon the banks of the Jihon."
- "After subjecting the Arabians, they founded a vast empire, under the name of the Seljooks, or Seljoukians, so called from the name of Seljook, the first distinguished chief of this people."
- "The empire of Mahmoud declined after his death, owing to divisions and civil wars, but chiefly to the rise of the great Turkish tribe of the Seljookee, which was so called from the name of their renowned chief Seljook, who, being banished by his khan or chief from Turkistan, passed the Jaxartes with his numerous followers, and settled in the plains of Bokhara, in the neighbourhood of Samarcand, where he embraced the Mahometan religion."
- "At his death the Seljook empire was divided between his 4 sons, and soon a large number of independent sultanates was formed, which circumstance finally caused the ruin of the Seljook dominion."
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