Definitions for alani

alani A·la·ni

Spelling: [uh-ley-nahy, uh-lah-nee]
IPA: /əˈleɪ naɪ, əˈlɑ ni/

Alani is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in alani (aailn).

Definitions for alani

plural noun

  1. a nomadic Iranian people who flourished in the 2nd–4th centuries a.d. and are ancestors of the present-day Ossets.

Examples for alani

A naked sabre, fixed hilt downwards in the earth, was worshipped by the Alani.

And so at other times in actis and Verba m'ri Alani de Auriga.

Probably they were relics left there by the Alani in their wanderings through Gaul.

Alania has its name from the people called Alani, who call themselves As in their own language.

His father was a Goth, his mother of the nation of the Alani.

The Alani were in search of plunder, and strongly disposed to obtain it from Roman provinces.

They had long subjugated the Alani, and now they made the Ostrogoths, the east Goths, tributary.

The women among the Alani gathered straight rods or wands, and used them in their superstition.

Herodotus mentions it as a custom of the Alani, and Tacitus of the old Germans.

His father was a Goth, and his mother of the nation of the Alani.

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