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Nabatæan, n. and a.|næbəˈtiːən|
Also Nabatean, Nabathæan, Nabathean.
[f. L. Nabat(h)æ-us, Gr. ναβαταῖ-ος, ναβαθαῖ-ος (cf. Nebāṭu the native name of the country) + -an.]
A. n. One of an ancient Arabian people; their language.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Nabatæans.
1601Holland tr. Pliny's Nat. Hist. I. xii. xx. 374 The Troglodyte Nabathæans: who onely of the ancient Nabathæans, there setled and remained. 1875Encycl. Brit. III. 411/2 Two forms of Shemitic writing (the Palmyrenian.., and the Sinaitic or Nabathæan). 1884Ibid. XVII. 160/1 Nabatæans, a famous people of ancient Arabia. 1897F. Hommel in H. von Hilprecht Recent Res. in Bible Lands 146 Between the decline of the Nabatean Empire and the appearance of Muhammad. 1898E. Clodd Tom Tit Tot vi. 65 Ibn Khaldun..describes how the Nabathean sorcerers of the Lower Euphrates made an image of the person whom they plotted to destroy. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 626/1 The language of this country was Nabataean. 1920Public Opinion 9 July 42/3 Little did the ancient..Nabataeans imagine that a people called Americans would one day wander among the ruins of their proud city. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Oct. 832/2 His new work..is intended to summarize all that is known on the subject of the Nabateans. Ibid., The sources of Nabatean history. 1973Times 9 June 11/7 A fragment of ancient Nabatean pottery. 1974Times 21 Dec. 11/4 The Arava, stretching from the Dead Sea to Eilat, which has been virtually virgin soil since the days of the Nabateans. |