Sogdian, ember, habitant, inhabitant

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ember

• [émbər]

[名]

1 ((通例 〜s))燃えさし；((比喩))余韻

an ember of excitement
興奮のなごり.

2 ((〜s))残り火

the embers of an old love
昔の恋の余燼(よじん).

Sogdian
(sŏg'dē-ən)
adj.
Of or relating to an ancient Iranian people whose homeland was in the area around Samarqand and who had established settlements throughout Chinese Turkistan before the advent of Islam.

n.

1. A member of this people.
2. The extinct Middle Iranian language of this people, known chiefly from texts and inscriptions dating from the second to the ninth centuries A.D.

[Latin Sogdiānus, from Greek Sogdoi, Sogdians, from Old Persian Sug(u)da-.]

Sogdiana or Sogdia (Old Persian: Suguda-; Ancient Greek: Σογδιανή; New Persian: سغد – Sōġd; Tajik: Суғд – Sughd; Turkish: Soğut; Chinese:粟特人) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, eighteenth in the list on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great (i. 16). Sogdiana is "listed" as the second of the "good lands and countries" that Ahura Mazda created. This region is listed second after Airyana Vaeja, Land of the Aryans, in the Zoroastrian book of Vendidad or "Videvdat", indicating the importance of this region from ancient times.^[1] Sogdiana, at different times, included territories around Samarkand, Bukhara, Khujand and Kesh in modern Uzbekistan. The inhabitants of Sogdiana were the Sogdians, an Eastern Iranian people, who are among the ancestors of modern-day Tajiks.




 habitant

A person who inhabits a particular place.
Synonyms:	denizen, dweller
Usage:	The cave's only habitant appeared filthy and unshaven, suggesting that he had been living there for some time.