Saljūqid

English

Etymology

From Saljūq +‎ -id, from an unadapted borrowing of Arabic سَلْجُوق (Saljūq).

Adjective

Saljūqid (not comparable)

1. (historical, rare) Alternative form of Seljukid, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.
   • 2006, Omid Safi, The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam..., page 20:

     The young (and naïve) Saljūqid commander, Isrā'īl, pledged his loyalty to the Ghaznavid.

Noun

Saljūqid (plural Saljūqids)

1. (historical, rare) Alternative form of Seljukid, a member of the Seljuk dynasty or a person of their empire.
   • 1953, Charles Ambrose Storey, Persian Literature, §3.4:

     Najm al-Dīn himself became skilled in calligraphy, binding and gilding... as well as law and theology, and it was apparently as an artist that he entered the service of the Sulṭān Ṭughril, the last of the Saljūqids, who reigned from 571/1175 to 590/1194.