Alani

[ uh-ley-nahy, uh-lah-nee ]

plural noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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But in the progress of time all these tribes came to be united under one generic appellation, and are called Alani.

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