Kushanic

English

Etymology

From Kushan +‎ -ic.

Adjective

Kushanic (comparative more Kushanic, superlative most Kushanic)

  1. Synonym of Kushan
    • 1986, Traces of the Central Asian Culture in the North‎[1], page 122:
      The cultural layer of the Kushanic period in Bagram is, in general, extremely rich in glass items: [...]
    • 2006, The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World, page 179:
      [...] in a Kushanic noblewoman's grave at Tillya Tepe in Central Asia.
    • 2025, Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, God-Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology of South Asia, page 337:
      The Kushanic unification of the valleys of the Oxus, Indus, and Ganges under one kingdom was broken by central Asian invaders, the Ephthalites, who destroyed the Buddhist monasteries and stupas, [...]
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