Seljook

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1853, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed., Vol. III, s.v. "Asia", p. 744:
 * The empire of declined after his death, owing to divisions and civil wars, but chiefly to the rise of the great Turkish tribe of the Seljookee, which was so called from the name of their renowned chief Seljook, who, being banished by his khan or chief from Turkistan, passed the Jaxartes with his numerous followers, and settled in the plains of Bokhara, in the neighbourhood of Samarcand, where he embraced the Mahometan religion.
 * 1) * 1853, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed., Vol. III, s.v. "Asia", p. 744:
 * The empire of declined after his death, owing to divisions and civil wars, but chiefly to the rise of the great Turkish tribe of the Seljookee, which was so called from the name of their renowned chief Seljook, who, being banished by his khan or chief from Turkistan, passed the Jaxartes with his numerous followers, and settled in the plains of Bokhara, in the neighbourhood of Samarcand, where he embraced the Mahometan religion.
 * The empire of declined after his death, owing to divisions and civil wars, but chiefly to the rise of the great Turkish tribe of the Seljookee, which was so called from the name of their renowned chief Seljook, who, being banished by his khan or chief from Turkistan, passed the Jaxartes with his numerous followers, and settled in the plains of Bokhara, in the neighbourhood of Samarcand, where he embraced the Mahometan religion.

Noun

 * , a member of the dynasty or person of the empire.

Adjective

 * , of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.
 * 1) * 1885, Frederick A.P. Barnard & al., Johnson's New General Cyclopaedia..., s.v. "Seljooks or Seljuks":
 * At death the Seljook empire was divided between his 4 sons, and soon a large number of independent sultanates was formed, which circumstance finally caused the ruin of the Seljook dominion.