The Arabian peninsula has long been accepted as the original Semitic Urheimat by a majority of scholars.
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Semitic
/səˈmɪt.ɪk/
Synonyms for "semitic" (6 found)
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More general
15 entriesAfrasianAfrasian languageAfro-AsiaticAfroasiaticAfroasiatic languageAfroasiatic languagesHamito-Semiticcultureethnic groupethnic group memberethnolinguistic grouphumanlanguage familylanguage grouplinguistics
More specific
9 entriesCollocations
7 entriesProto-SemiticSemitic grammarSemitic languagesSemitic philologySemitic rootsSemitic scriptSemitic studies
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
13 translations across 12 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- սեմական adj (pertaining to the Semites)
Bengali
1 entries- সামী adj (pertaining to the Semites)
Catalan
1 entries- semític adj (pertaining to the Semites)
Czech
1 entries- semitský adj (pertaining to the Semites)
Finnish
1 entries- seemiläinen adj (pertaining to the Semites)
French
1 entries- sémitique adj (pertaining to the Semites)
German
1 entries- semitisch adj (pertaining to the Semites)
Hindi
1 entries- सामी adj (pertaining to the Semites)
Icelandic
1 entries- semískur adj (pertaining to the Semites)
Irish
1 entries- Seimíteach adj (pertaining to the Semites)
Polish
1 entries- semicki adj (pertaining to the Semites)
Portuguese
2 entries- semita adj (pertaining to the Semites)
- semítico adj (pertaining to the Semites)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
I love Semitic languages.
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Berber isn't a Semitic language.
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An anthropologist wrongly applied the word "Semitic" not just to languages like Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew but specifically to ethnically and culturally Jewish people. More ominously, from 1880 through the Nazi period of German history, racists extended the word "Aryan," which had meant the Sanskrit-Persian language family, to deliberately foster the vile and discredited theory of a so-called Aryan race.
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