Circassian
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A native or inhabitant of Circassia (historical) (nowadays shared by Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia), including the Adyghes and Ubykhs.
- 2 a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian wordnet
- 3 Alternative form of Circassienne (“kind of light cashmere”). alt-of, alternative
- 4 a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia wordnet
- 5 a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia wordnet
- 1 Of or pertaining to Circassia or Circassians.
"But in the garden was life in all its glad and bright hues: the early roses and the late violets opened their urns, exhaling in perfume the drops they caught, till every breath was pleasure; the laburnums, those prodigals of fleeting wealth, were covered with gold; and the Persian lilacs waved graceful as the Circassian maidens, to whom they are so often compared in eastern song."
- 1 A North Caucasian language group spoken in Circassia in North West Caucasus Russia.
- 2 The Adyghe, Kabardian, Ubykh languages.
Example
More examples"But in the garden was life in all its glad and bright hues: the early roses and the late violets opened their urns, exhaling in perfume the drops they caught, till every breath was pleasure; the laburnums, those prodigals of fleeting wealth, were covered with gold; and the Persian lilacs waved graceful as the Circassian maidens, to whom they are so often compared in eastern song."
Etymology
From Circassia + -an.
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