Aramaic

[,ærə'meiik]

Definition

(noun.) an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it.

(noun.) a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia.

(adj.) of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages .

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Definition

(a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee.

(n.) The Aramaic language.

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Definition

adj. relating to AraméŒ?i> the whole of the country to the north-east of Palestine or to its language—also Aramē′an Ar′amite.—n. Aramā′ism an Aramaic idiom.

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