n.
Variant: also To · khar · i · an
Pronunciation: t ō - ' ker- ē - ə n,- ' kär-
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek Tocharoi
Date: 1926
1 a : a language of central Asia known from documents from the sixth to eighth centuries A.D. b : a branch of the Indo-European language family containing Tocharian ― see INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES table
2 : a member of a people of presumably Indo-European speech dwelling in central Asia during the first millennium of the Christian era