Scythian
/ˈsɪði.ən/
Scythian adjective: of or relating to Scythia (a region of Central Eurasia in the classical era) or its inhabitants.
Adjective
Scythian (comparative more Scythian, superlative most Scythian)
- Of or relating to Scythia (a region of Central Eurasia in the classical era) or its inhabitants.
- The Scythian collection is designed not just to echo a past civilization, recorded in the classical works of Herodotos and Pliny; it is also intended as a clarion call to the Russians to look to their jewelry heritage and their wealth of precious stones.1998 October 27, Suzy Menkes, “Russian Heritage:Inspiration in Gold, Humanity in Ivory”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...
- Synonyms:
- Scythic
Noun
Scythian (plural Scythians)
- An inhabitant of Scythia.
- How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation […]1685, John Norris, (translator), The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great [Cyropaedia] by Xenophon Book I
- Synonyms:
- Scyth
Proper noun
Scythian
- The Eastern Iranian language of Scythians.
- Synonyms:
- Scythic
- The Proto-Indo-European language.
- Scythian was therefore not the same as modern Dutch, but the ancestral language of the Dutch as well as other neighbouring languages.1999, Cornelis Dekker, The Origins of Old Germanic Studies in the Low Countries, BRILL, page 210
- Though Boxhorn was working over a century before Sir William Jones, his ‘Scythian’ is not conceptually far off the later notion of Indo-European, and his choice of term ‘Scythian’ shows that Boxhorn was envisaging a cultural connection between the (northern) languages of the Near East and their...2010, William Poole, The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth, Peter Lang, page 81
- An epoch from 251 ± 0.2 to 245 ± 1.5 million years ago, a subdivision of the Early Triassic.
Scythian meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Scythian in Hindi
- of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants
- शक śak, शाक śāk, शाका śākā
- an inhabitant of Scythia
- शक śak, शाक śāk, शाका śākā
- Eastern Iranian language of Scythians
- शक śak, शाक śāk, शाका śākā
Scythian in Tamil
- பண்டைய சித்தியக்குடியினர், பண்டைய சித்தியக் குடியினஞ் சார்ந்த
Scythian in Urdu
- Scythian; a warlike nomadic people from Scythia
- سکا sakā
Scythian in Bengali
- Scythian
- যবন jobon
More languagesFewer languages
- Scythian in Sanskrit
- शाक śāka, शक śaka
- Scythian in Persian
- سکایی sakâyi, سکا sakâ
Synonyms of Scythian
Forms of Scythian
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more Scythian |
| superlative | most Scythian |
| Noun | |
| plural | Scythians |
Origin of Scythian
From Scythia + -an.
Words formed from Scythian
Phrases with Scythian
Questions about Scythian
- What does Scythian mean?
- Scythian means of or relating to Scythia (a region of Central Eurasia in the classical era) or its inhabitants.
- What is Scythian in Hindi?
- Scythian in Hindi is शक (śak), शाक (śāk), शाका (śākā). See Scythian meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Scythian?
- Scythian can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Scythian?
- Scythian is pronounced /ˈsɪði.ən/.
Words near Scythian in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Scythian (page history and authors); Scythian (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سکا (Urdu) (page history and authors); যবন (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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