English-Finnish translations for ghaznavid

Definition of ghaznavid

• A Persianate Muslim dynasty, of Turkic slave origin, which existed from 975 to 1187 and ruled much of Persia, Transoxania, and the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent
• Of or pertaining to this dynasty, or to the empire that it ruled
• A member of this dynasty

Examples

• Ghaznavid architecture
• the House of Ghaznavids

Related words

• ghazwa
• ghazal
• ghazi
• Benghazi
• Ghaziabad
• ghazw