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 an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group ****ociated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews...
- The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern...
- languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages...
- The term Semitic religions most commonly refers to the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Semitic religions may also refer...
- Ancient Semitic religion encomp****es the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa. Since the term...
- those who incorrectly ****ert that it refers to racist hatred directed at "Semitic people" in spite of the fact that this grouping is a historical race concept...
- 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 roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root)...