Semitic

  1. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.
  2. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to the Semites: Semitic people.
  3. Adjective.  (biblical) Of or pertaining to the descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah.
  4. Adjective.  In a narrower sense, of or pertaining to the Israeli, Jewish, or Hebrew people.
  5. Proper noun.  The Semitic languages in general.

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