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Transoxiana

Transoxiana proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Transoxiana

  1. (historical) 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.
    • 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.1990, James D. Tracy, editor, The Rise of Merchant Empires, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 358
    Synonyms:
    Transoxania, Sogdiana

Transoxiana meaning in Urdu, Arabic and Persian

Transoxiana in Urdu

موار النہر

Transoxiana in Arabic

ancient portion of Central Asia
مَا وَرَاءَ النَهْر mā warāʔa n-nahr

Transoxiana in Persian

ancient portion of Central Asia
ماوَراءُالنَهر mâ-varâ'-on-nahr, فَرارود farârud

Synonyms of Transoxiana

Origin of Transoxiana

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”).

Words formed from Transoxiana

Questions about Transoxiana

What does Transoxiana mean?
Transoxiana means 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.
What is Transoxiana in Urdu?
Transoxiana in Urdu is موار النہر. See Transoxiana meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is Transoxiana?
Transoxiana is a proper noun.

Words near Transoxiana in the dictionary

  1. transotic
  2. transovarial
  3. transovarially
  4. transovarian
  5. transovaric
  6. Transoxiana
  7. Transoxianan
  8. Transoxianans
  9. transp
  10. Transp.
  11. transpacific

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Transoxiana (page history and authors); Transoxiana (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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