ostikan

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Old Armenian ոստիկան (ostikan).

Noun

ostikan (plural ostikans)

1. (historical) Any of the Arab governors of Armenia.
   • 2007, Lynn Jones, Between Islam and Byzantium: Aght'amar and the Visual Construction of Medieval Armenian Rulership:

     The Sadjid ostikans were eager to foster mistrust amongst the nakharars, seeking to destabilize Bagratuni rule and to usurp the Bagratuni king's right to send taxes to the caliph.

Derived terms

• ostikanate

Translations

state

• Armenian: ոստիկան (hy) (ostikan)

  Old Armenian: ոստիկան (ostikan)

Anagrams

• Atkison, Konitsa, kations