Semitic
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- noun
- /səˈmɪtɪk/
- Specialized
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- Their hair, wavy and dark and Semitic like mine, was parted down the left side in a clean white scalp line.
- anti-Semitic
Examples
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For example, in Zeugma, a painted or scratched-on name could determine whether an inhabitant was Semitic, Persian, Greek, or Roman.
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Others seemed Indo-Aryan, Vedda, Melanesian-Negroid, Australian, Indian, Eskimo, or Semitic.
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And the language that was for that script was a Semitic language.
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Jesus was Semitic, to be more accurate.
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It spread down the Nile and later into the Semitic male monotheisms.
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It's a way of dealing with the motherland and origins: I'm a combination of Semitic and Kemetic.
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The two major Semitic religions, Judaism and Islam, both tend to concentrate on what to do, on actions, whereas Christianity ("half Semitic") much more stresses what to think, though of course not exclusively.
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Perhaps, he suggests, the Hurrians were earlier inhabitants of the region who, like the Sumerians, had to make room for the Semitic-speaking people who created the world's first empire based at Akkad in central Mesopotamia around 2350 B.C.
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Hebrew and Arabic are both classified as Semitic languages that share common roots.
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The field of linguistics often studies the structure and evolution of Semitic languages such as Amharic.
Compounds
- Archaic
A group of related languages spoken in North Africa and southwest Asia, like Arabic and Hebrew
A god or goddess worshipped long ago by groups such as the Babylonians and Hebrews
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The noun Semitic names the language group that takes its name from the biblical figure Shem, and so it refers to languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic.