Bokhara

American  

[boh-kahr-uh, boo-khah-ruh] / boʊˈkɑr ə, buˈxɑ rə /

noun

1. Bukhara.

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Bokhara British  

/ bʊˈxɑːrə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of Bukhara

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Other Word Forms

• Bokharan adjective

Example Sentences

The light sent a golden sheen over the silken coverlet and sparkled on the rich deep hairs of the Bokhara rug, which had come from a very exclusive auction disposing of the furnishings of a great Long Island estate.

From The New Yorker

What caused Islam to fall so rapidly, after having, during the eight centuries of its domination in Spain, placed that country not only at the head of occidental civilisation, but also causing it to shine quite as brilliantly from Delhi and Bokhara, as far as Constantinople and Fez?

From Project Gutenberg

Asia too is largely represented in students both from Western Asia, from Turkey, Arabia, and Persia; and from Central Asia, from Khiva and Bokhara, and Turkistan and Afghanistan, and the borders of China.

From Project Gutenberg

Under the Tahirids of Khorasan, the Saffarids of Seistan and the Samanids of Bokhara, it flourished for some centuries in peace and progressive prosperity; but during the succeeding rule of the Ghaznevid kings its metropolitan character was for a time obscured by the celebrity of the neighbouring capital of Ghazni, until finally in the reign of Sultan Sanjar of Merv about 1157 the city was entirely destroyed by an irruption of the Ghuzz, the predecessors, in race as well as in habitat, of the modern Turkomans.

From Project Gutenberg

Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert, on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian, to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand, performed in the Year 1863.

From Project Gutenberg