Mameluke meaning

măm'ə-lo͝ok'
A member of a former military caste, originally composed of slaves from Turkey, that held the Egyptian throne from about 1250 until 1517 and remained powerful until 1811.
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A member of a military caste, orig. made up of slaves, that ruled in Egypt from 1250 until 1517 and remained powerful until 1811
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In Muslim countries, a slave.
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A member of a military regime created and run originally by freed white slaves, which formed a ruling caste in Egypt from 1250 until 1812 and in Syria until 1516.
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Origin of mameluke

  • French mameluk from Arabic mamlūk slave, Mameluke passive participle of malaka to possess mlk in Semitic roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From French mamelouk, ultimately from Arabic مملوك (mamlÅ«k, “slave") from ملك (málaka, “to possess, to acquire"), from the root Ù… Ù„ Ùƒ (m-l-k).
    From Wiktionary

Mameluke Sentence Examples

  • On leaving Egypt he travelled by land to the Persian Gulf, disguised as a Mameluke, visiting Damascus, and entering the great mosque undetected.

  • Muir, The Mameluke or Stave Dynasty of Egypt (London, 1896); for the Turkish period, G.

  • They consented to ally themselves with the ruler of Damascus against the sultan of Egypt; but in the battle of Gaza they were deserted by their allies and heavily defeated by Bibars, the Egyptian general and future Mameluke sultan of Egypt.

  • I Turanshah, deposed 1250, and succeeded by the Mameluke Aibek.

  • The revolution in Egypt in 1250 separated Damascus from Cairo more trenchantly than they had ever been separated since 1171: while a Mameluke ruled in Cairo, Malik-al-Nasir of Aleppo was elected as sultan by the emirs of Damascus.

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