Ghassan

English

Etymology

Said to be named after a nearby lake of the same name.

Proper noun

Ghassan

1. A former Arab kingdom in the Levant which functioned as a client state to the Byzantine Empire.
   • 1744, George Finlay, Greece Under the Romans‎^[1], William Blackwood and Sons, page 322:

     The Arabs or Saracens, who inhabited the district between Kirkesium and Idumæa, were divided into two kingdoms,—that of Ghassan, towards Syria, maintained an alliance with the Romans; […]

Derived terms

• Ghassanian

Anagrams

• sanghas