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Seljuk, a. and n.|ˈsɛldʒuːk|
Also 9 Seljouk.
[f. Turk. seljūq, the name of the reputed ancestor of the Seljuk dynasties.]
A. adj.
1. The distinctive epithet of certain Turkish dynasties which ruled over large parts of Asia from the 11th to the 13th c. Hence used to designate the branch of the Turkish people to whom these dynasties belonged (in contradistinction to Ottoman or Osmanli).
1834J. B. Fraser Acc. Persia vi. 214 His heir Musaood was defeated ten years after by the Seljuk Turkomans, in Khorasan. 1879Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. iii. 268 A new enemy appeared in the form of the Seljouk Turks. 1904W. M. Ramsay Lett. Seven Churches xvii. 216 The coins of a Seljuk principality..bear the legend in mediaeval Latin.
2. Designating a style of oriental carpet.
1931A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets xiii. 267 Seljuk, lifted out of Turkish history, and Dinar..are the names of oriental rugs produced in Greece. 1952B. Miall tr. H. Jacoby's How to know Oriental Carpets & Rugs 13 The oldest known Oriental carpets, the so-called Seljuk carpets of the thirteenth century, which came originally from the Ala-eddin Mosque at Konia, are now preserved, with other magnificent examples, in the Evkaf Museum at Istanbul. 1963I. Schlosser European & Oriental Rugs & Carpets 118 The Seljuk carpets..in the Evkaf Museum..have small but very interesting geometric patterns.
B. n. (or absol. use of the adj.). A member of the Seljuk tribe or dynasty.
1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 211/1 A dynasty which..overturned that of the Iranian Seljuks. 1899F. M. Crawford Via Crucis xxii. 351 A full hour the Seljuks slew and slew. |