Ghassanian

English

Adjective

Ghassanian (not comparable)

1. Of the tribe of Ghassanids.
   • 1999, Glen Warren Bowersock, Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 469:

     This defeat turned out to be disastrous for the Ghassanids. After the disappearance of the Ghassanid state, isolated Ghassanian princes continued to reign in some oases and castles […]

Noun

Ghassanian (plural Ghassanians)

1. Ghassanid (member of an particular Arab tribe)
   • 1940, U. Wayriffe, Arabica & Islamica:

     […] send messages to the Byzantine Emperor, the King of Persia, […] and two Christian Arab chiefs - one a Ghassanian on the Syrian frontier , the other in Yemama^[sic] […]