Tochari

• Tokhari

Borrowed from Latin Tocharī pl, from Ancient Greek Τόχαροι pl (Tókharoi).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɒkəraɪ/^[1]

the Tochari pl (plural only)

1. An ancient people of Bactria.

   Synonyms: Tocharians (original sense), Tokhars, Tukharas, Tukhars

   • 1572, The Surveye of the World, folio 14r:

     Then followe the Tochari, and then the Phurij, and the Seres, nations altogyther barbarous, neyther inſtructed in any kynde of learning, neyther gyuen to ſtudie, or exerciſe of any thyng, but onely wandring in wylde and deſerte places, [...]

   • 1725, Bernard de Montfaucon, The Antiquities of Italy, page 327:

     The Country of the Tochari is now call’d Tochariſtan.

   • 1792, The Monthly Review, volume 9, page 44:

     The Tochari were mountaineers, on the declivity which regards Bactriana; and Tokariſtan is ſtill the name of the country between the mountains and the Gihon, or Oxus.

   • 1957, Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, editor, Antiquity‎^[1], volumes 31–32, page 137:

     Meanwhile Bactria submitted to the Tochari of Western writers (Sanskrit, Tukhāra). They have been sometimes supposed to have been a branch of the Turkish tribes, while the Hiung-nu have been seen as Mongols, the forerunners of the Hūnas and Chionites. It was a section of the Tocharians who later followed the Greeks across the Hindu-kush and created the great Kushan empire in North India.

The Tochari mentioned in Greek and Roman sources are associated with Bactria. The term is not securely connected with the people of the Tarim Basin who spoke the so-called Tocharian languages.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔ.kʰa.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔː.ka.ri]

Tocharī

1. inflection of Tocharus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

• → English: Tochari
• French: Tochares
• Italian: tocari
• Spanish: tócaros