Definition of Semitic. Meaning of Semitic. Synonyms of Semitic

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Definition of Semitic

Semitic
Semitic Sem*it"ic, a. Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [Written also Shemitic.] Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Ph[oe]nician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). --Encyc. Brit.

Meaning of Semitic from wikipedia

- Look up semitic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Semitic most commonly refers to the Semitic languages, a name used since the 1770s to refer to the...
- Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group ****ociated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians...
- The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese and numerous other...
- languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages...
- Christianity, and Islam. Ancient Semitic religion, polytheistic pre-Abrahamic religions practiced by Ancient Semitic peoples Semitic neopaganism, religions based...
- sentiment alone. The word "Semitic" was coined by German orientalist August Ludwig von Schlözer in 1781 to designate the Semitic group of languages—Aramaic...
- Ancient Semitic religion encomp****es the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa. Since the term...
- Central Semitic languages are one of the three groups of West Semitic languages, alongside Modern South Arabian languages and Ethiopian Semitic languages...
- Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and North Africa...
- The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of Semitic languages. The term was first coined in 1883 by Fritz Hommel. The grouping supported...