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Sasanian

/səˈseɪnɪən/adjective, noun

Sasanian is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the Sasanian dynasty or the Sasanian Empire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-S-A-N-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Sasanian mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to the Sasanian dynasty or the Sasanian Empire.

noun

  1. 1

    A member of the Sasanian dynasty.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Sasanian?

  • /səˈseɪnɪən/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Sasanian.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Sasanian

  • Sāsānian
  • Sasanians plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Sasanian?

Sasanian appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Sasanian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsassanide (of or pertaining to the Sasanian dynasty or the…), Sassanide (member of the Sasanian dynasty)
Spanishsasánida (of or pertaining to the Sasanian dynasty or the…)
GermanSassanide, Sassanidin (member of the Sasanian dynasty)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Sasanian come from?

From Sasan + -ian.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).