Near Eastern
Adjective
Meaning
Near Eastern (not comparable)
of or pertaining to the Near East
Synonyms
Examples
The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.
"Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr and the Mahdi" in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies 40. 1981. pp. 291–305.
African cattle are thought to have descended from aurochs more closely related to the Near Eastern ones.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: KARA COONEY is an associate professor of Egyptian art and architecture at UCLA in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Added to all this is the fact that Near Eastern culture does incorporate various elements of beauty outside of the daily routine which even regular people recognize as exotic.
Ben E. Perry (compiler of the " Perry Index " of Aesop's fables) has argued controversially that some of the Buddhist Jataka tales and some of the fables in the Panchatantra may have been influenced by similar Greek and Near Eastern ones.