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Definition of Sabaean in English: Sabaeannoun saˈbiːənsəˈbiən A member of an ancient Semitic people who ruled Saba in south-western Arabia until overrun by Persians and Arabs in the 6th century AD. 赛伯伊人(公元6世纪波斯人和阿拉伯人占领阿拉伯西南部的赛伯伊王国之前统治该地区的古代闪米特人) Example sentencesExamples - The situation was somewhat more complicated than that proposed by Eratosthenes, but today the names for the races proposed by Eratosthenes, namely Minaeans, Sabaeans, Qatabanians, and Hadramites, are still used.
- Coins and religious relics show that the ancient Sabaeans, as Shebas subjects were known, worshipped multiple gods with the sun as the supreme deity.
- The original script was probably common to the ancient Sabæans, Phnicians, Aramæans and Hebrews.
adjective saˈbiːənsəˈbiən Relating to the Sabaeans. Example sentencesExamples - Some scholars think that there might have been a Sabaean tribe in the north of Arabia, toward Dedan.
- Between the 12 th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was part of the Minaean, Sabaean, and Himyarite kingdoms, which controlled the lucrative spice trade, and later came under Ethiopian and Persian rule.
- It issued its own currency and was a literate society with a unique language and script based on the Sabaean alphabet, related to that used in South Arabia and hence to Hebrew.
OriginFrom Latin Sabaeus (from Greek Sabaios) + -an. RhymesActaeon, Aegean, aeon (US eon), Augean, Behan, Cadmean, Caribbean, Carolean, Chaldean, Cyclopean, empyrean, epicurean, European, Fijian, Galilean, Hasmonean, Hebridean, Herculean, Ian, Jacobean, Kampuchean, Laodicean, lien, Linnaean (US Linnean), Maccabean, Mandaean (US Mandean), Medicean, monogenean, Nabataean (US Nabatean), Orphean, paean, paeon, pean, peon, Periclean, piscean, plebeian, Pyrenean, Pythagorean, Sadducean, Sisyphean, skean, Tanzanian, Tennesseean, Terpsichorean, theodicean, Tyrolean Definition of Sabaean in US English: Sabaeannounsəˈbēənsəˈbiən A member of an ancient Semitic people who ruled Saba in southwestern Arabia until overrun by Persians and Arabs in the 6th century AD. 赛伯伊人(公元6世纪波斯人和阿拉伯人占领阿拉伯西南部的赛伯伊王国之前统治该地区的古代闪米特人) Example sentencesExamples - The original script was probably common to the ancient Sabæans, Phnicians, Aramæans and Hebrews.
- Coins and religious relics show that the ancient Sabaeans, as Shebas subjects were known, worshipped multiple gods with the sun as the supreme deity.
- The situation was somewhat more complicated than that proposed by Eratosthenes, but today the names for the races proposed by Eratosthenes, namely Minaeans, Sabaeans, Qatabanians, and Hadramites, are still used.
adjectivesəˈbēənsəˈbiən Relating to the Sabaeans. Example sentencesExamples - Between the 12 th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was part of the Minaean, Sabaean, and Himyarite kingdoms, which controlled the lucrative spice trade, and later came under Ethiopian and Persian rule.
- It issued its own currency and was a literate society with a unique language and script based on the Sabaean alphabet, related to that used in South Arabia and hence to Hebrew.
- Some scholars think that there might have been a Sabaean tribe in the north of Arabia, toward Dedan.
OriginFrom Latin Sabaeus (from Greek Sabaios) + -an. |