Kushan

Meanings

Proper Noun

• An ancient Indo-Scythian or Tocharian realm in Central Asia and Northern India.
• The Bactrian language.

Noun

• A member of the dynasty that founded and ruled the Kushan realm.

Adjective

• Of or relating to the Kushans or the Kushan realm.

Origin

• Epigraphic (Bactrian in Greek script) ΚΟϷΑΝ košan, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Guṣāṇa, Parthian kšn, ultimately from Chinese . The conventional name Kushan and the proposed connection with the Chinese term is due to Alexander Cunningham's Coins of the Indo-Scythians, Sakas & Kushans (1899).