assyrian
IPA: ʌsˈɪriʌn
Root Word: Assyrian
noun
- (historical) A person who resided in the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur.
- (historical) A citizen of an ancient nation and empire, including the northern half of Mesopotamia, with capital city of Nineveh.
- A person from a traditional Christian ethnic group with roots in the Middle East, who claim ancestry tracing back to the ancient Assyrians.
- A butterfly of the genus Terinos.
- Any Syriac language spoken by Assyrian peoples, particularly Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.
- A dialect of Akkadian spoken in ancient Assyria.
adjective
- (historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur.
- (historical) Of, or characteristic of, or pertaining to the ancient nation and empire, including the northern half of Mesopotamia, with capital city of Nineveh.
- Of or pertaining to the Assyrian people.
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Examples of "assyrian" in Sentences
- Assyrian and Syriac are the same.
- If he's not Assyrian, then he's not Assyrian.
- This resulted in the retaliation of the Assyrians.
- The Syriacs descend from the population of the Assyrian empire.
- Assyrian isn't at all limited to the Assyrian Church of the East.
- This church is an offshoot of the Ancient Assyrian church of the East.
- Assyrians in Germany are people of Assyrian descent living in Germany.
- Biblical references are tangential to the history of the Assyrian Empire.
- Ecumenism between Assyrian Church of the East and the Roman Catholic Church.
- The statement is preferential to Assyrians and disrespectful to non Assyrians.
- Labels: assyrian; christianity in iran, christian Iranian, Churches; islamic republic of iran; iran
- The assyrian kings governed her either by means of viceroys, such as Belibus, Regibelus, Mesesimordachus, and
- Lastly, from an ANE perspective, it seems that shmita and dror/yovel were practiced by assyrian kings at times determined by the king.
- I wonder, if "Nineveh" had been the term used for the assyrian empire as rome is/was used to describe the roman empire, whether or not the intentions of these ancient geographic descriptions would be more obvious.
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- If Nineveh had also been both a term term used to describe the assyrian empire AND interchangably a term used to describe the city, then the writer of the period might have been able to use other words that specifically identify the economic/resource power of the city locally from both its imperial influence and simply it's city walls.