Hasaean

English

Etymology

From al-Hasâ, the name of the northeastern part of the Saudi Arabian Eastern Province.

Proper noun

Hasaean

1. A Semitic language used in inscriptions found mainly in the great oasis of al-Hasâ, written in a variety of the South Arabian scripts.
   • 2013, Andrew Rippin, The Islamic World, →ISBN:

     The South Semitic (or South West Semitic) group brings together the ancient dialects of South Arabia: Sabaean, Minaean, and Qatabanian; the PreIslamic Northern Arabian languages of Thamudic, Lihyanite, Safaitic, and Hasaean, which is associated with central easter parts of the Arabian penninsula; and the Ethiopian languages of Ge' ez, Amharic, Tigrina, and Tigre.

Adjective

Hasaean (not comparable)

1. Related to the civilization that left the Hasaean inscriptions, that is, to a pre-Islamic civilization that dates to the 8th century BCE in the northeastern part of the Saudi Arabian Eastern Province.
   • 1996, Flora E. S. Kaplan, Museums and the making of "ourselves": the role of objects in national identity:

     For the Hasaean civilization based on Thaj in eastern Arabia, but also taking into account the areas of present-day Ra's al-Zur, Dammam, and Abqaiq, Potts (1983) has proposed a chronological system divided into early, middle, and late phases.