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Sogdian, a. and n.|ˈsɒgdɪən|
Also Soghdian, Sughdian.
[ad. L. Sogdiānus, a. Gr. σογδιανός, f. O. Persian Suguda, later Sugud.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to Sogdiana, an ancient Persian province corresponding to the modern Samarkand and Bokhara in the Uzbek S.S.R.
B. n.
a. A native of this province.
b. The Middle Iranian language of this province. Also attrib.
1553J. Brende tr. Quintus Curtius' Hist. vii. sig. Ui, When he had ordred all thinges amonges the Sogdians, he..remoued into Bactria. 1700G. Booth tr. Diodorus Siculus' Historical Libr. 785 How the King led his Army against the Sogdians and Scythians. Ibid. 787 How the Sogdian Noblemen being led forth to be put to Death, were unexpectedly preserv'd. 1729J. Rooke tr. Arrian's Hist. of Alexander's Exped. I. iv. xvi. 24 He then, with part of his army, march'd straight into the country of the Sogdians. Ibid., Spitamenes, at the head of a band of Sogdian exiles, who had fled into Scythia,..attack'd a certain castle in Bactria. 1909Indogerm. Forsch. XXV. 182 The Sughdian rendering of the Syriac version of the Greek. 1923H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. (rev. ed.) xxx. 295/2 A very considerable literature..in Sogdian and another Aryan language has been discovered. 1947C. P. Snow Light & Dark i. iv. 47 It was written in an unknown variety of Middle Persian called Early Soghdian. 1954I. Gershevitch (title) Grammar of Manichean Sogdian. 1973R. L. Fox Alexander the Great iii. xxii. 309 Heavy drinking is the corollary of survival for a traveller in a Sogdian summer. Ibid. 314 By now, Sogdians and Bactrians were serving in Alexander's army. |