tokharEtymologyFrom Ancient Greek Τόχαρος (Tókharos) or Iranian Persian تُخار (toxâr).nounSynonym of Tocharian (“any member of the Tochari, a people who inhabited Bactria”)“Here too it remained still dispossessed by the Hiungnû, B.C. 177 (Shi-ki, cxxiii) when the tribe broke up, the greater part migrating to Baktria, where for a time they associated with the Tokhars 大夏, afterwards appearing as the Ephthalîtae of the later Greek historians.”