| 单词 | slave king |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslave king slave king n. a member of a dynasty founded by a former slave, Quṭb al-Dīn Aybak, which ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1206 to 1290; usually in plural. [Compare Persian sult̤anat mamlūk , denoting the dynasty ( < sult̤anat reign, authority, kingdom (see sultanate n.) + mamlūk Mameluke n.; compare sense 2 at that entry).] ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > member of other specific Asian Achaemenid1601 Achaemenian1737 slave king1841 Seleucid1852 Safavi1854 Sargonid1887 Safavid1888 Timurid1908 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. vi. i. 1 (heading) Slave kings. 1882 W. W. Hunter Indian Empire ix. 223 Kutab-ud-dín had started life as a Túrkí slave, and several of his successors rose by valour or intrigue from the same low condition to the throne. His dynasty is accordingly known as that of the Slave Kings. 1958 O. Caroe Pathans i. 17 The slave-kings who followed them in Delhi were, every one, a Turk. 2008 India Internat. Centre Q. 35 158 Thereafter came the Sultanate period with the Slave kings, the Khiljis, the Tughlaqs, the Sayyids, the Lodhis and Mughals (under whom Delhi flourished as probably never before) and finally the British. < as lemmas |
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