# Saljuq
## English
### Etymology

From Arabic سَلْجُوق (Saljūq) and Persian سلجوق (Saljuq).

### Proper noun

Saljuq
* (historical) Alternative form of Seljuk, Seljuk Bey.
** 1968, C. E. Bosworth, “The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World (A.D. 1000–1217)”, in The Cambridge History of Iran‎, volume 5, page 17:According to the Malik-Nāma, [...] the progenitor of the Saljuq family was one Duqaq, called Temür-Yalïgh ("iron-bow"). He and his son Saljuq served the "king of the Turks", i.e. the Yabghu, with Saljuq holding the important military office of Sü-Bashï.
** 1986, Central Asia‎, page 108:But relations between the king and Saljuq did not remain cordial and Saljuq soon migrated to Jand, where he and his followers embraced Islam and expelled the governor of the "king of the Turks".
** 2014, Yehoshua Frenkel, The Turkic Peoples in Medieval Arabic Writings‎, Routledge, page 84:After Duqāq's death his son Saljuq inherited his place.

#### Derived terms

* Saljuqian
* Saljuqid

### Adjective

Saljuq (not comparable)
* (historical) Alternative form of Seljuk, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.
** 1947, A Study of History‎:The Qaramanlis inherited the kernel of the former Saljuq domain with its capital, Qoniyah [...]
** 1989, Ronald W. Ferrier, The Arts of Persia, page 87:In this forceful yet exquisitely balanced interior, what Schroeder termed the muscularity of Saljuq architecture finds classic expression.
** 2013, Manzikert 1071‎, page 14:Other accounts maintain that the Saljuq family and its followers were allowed to live on the frontier of the huge Samanid amirate [...]
** 2014, Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries‎:The Saljuq Empire, established by Turkish invaders, reigned over a territory that roughly covers modern Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and Syria.
** 2018, The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam‎:The Turkmen were the mainstay of the Saljuq army but they were supplemented by Turkish slave soldiers and mercenaries, often of Kurdish ancestry.

### Noun

Saljuq (plural Saljuqs)
* (historical) Alternative form of Seljuk, a member of the Seljuk dynasty or person of their empire.
** 1949, The World of the Middle Ages‎, page 330:The two worst defeats that the Byzantines suffered in the Comneni period were both inflicted on them by the Saljuqs in Asia Minor.
** 1988, Ann K. S. Lambton, Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia‎, page 11:Although the Saljuqs were foreign to the Perso-Arab population of the ʿAbbāsid empire by origin, their Muslim upbringing prepared them for a rapid acceptance of the cultural institutions of the Muslim world and the imperial tradition in its broad outlines.
** 2009, Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture‎, page 167:The heritage of the Saljuqs—political, religious and cultural—can scarcely be exaggerated [...]
** 2018, John A. Shoup, The History of Syria‎, page 50:The Great Saljuqs pushed westward and brought northern Syria under their control in 1055, though they left local leaders in power.

## French
### Alternative forms

* Saljûq, Seldjouk

### Proper noun

Saljuq m
* (historical) Seljuk (founder of the Seljuk dynasty)

#### Derived terms

* saljuqide

## Uzbek
### Proper noun

Saljuq
* (historical) Seljuk (founder of the Seljuk dynasty)

#### Related terms

* saljuqiy (“Saljuqid”)