Seljookとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Seljook

1. (historical) Obsolete form of Seljuk, Seljuk Bey.
   • 1833, Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H.G.O. Dwight in Armenia‎:

     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.

   • 1838, Historical causes and effects‎:

     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.

   • 1853, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed., Vol. III, s.v. "Asia", p. 744:

     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.

派生語

名詞

Seljook (plural Seljooks)

1. (historical) Obsolete form of Seljuk, a member of the dynasty or person of the empire.
   • 1838, Historical causes and effects‎:

     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.

形容詞

Seljook (not comparable)

1. (historical) Obsolete form of Seljuk, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.
   • 1885, Frederick A.P. Barnard & al., Johnson's New General Cyclopaedia..., s.v. "Seljooks or Seljuks":

     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.