Hasaean

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  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.
adj
  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.

Word forms

Hasaean

Etymology

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

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