What does semitic mean?
Definitions for semitic
səˈmɪt ɪksemitic
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Princeton's WordNet
Semiticadjective
a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
Semiticadjective
of or relating to the group of Semitic languages
"Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology"
Semite, Semiticadjective
of or relating to or characteristic of Semites
"Semite peoples"
Wiktionary
Semiticadjective
Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.
Semiticadjective
Of or pertaining to the Semites: Semitic people.
Semiticadjective
Of or pertaining to the descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah.
Semiticadjective
In a narrower sense, of or pertaining to the Israeli, Jewish, or Hebrew people.
Semiticnoun
The Semitic languages in general.
Etymology: From the English Semite, an 18th century ethnological label from the semitisch, Σημ, from the שֵׂם, the name of the eldest son of Noah in biblical tradition (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), considered the forefather of the Semitic peoples. Perhaps derived from the Akkadian šumu, name or son.
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semitic
Semitic refers to a group of ethnic, cultural, and linguistic people originally from the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Assyrians and others. It also denotes the family of languages spoken by these people, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, and Amharic among others. The term is often used more broadly in historical, anthropological, or religious contexts to refer to the civilizations and cultures that developed in the region. It is derived from Shem, one of the sons of Noah in the Bible, from whom these people were traditionally thought to be descended.
Webster Dictionary
Semiticadjective
of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Semitic
sem-it′ik, adj. pertaining to the Semites, or supposed descendants of Shem, or their language, customs, &c.—also Shemit′ic.—ns. Sem′ite; Semitisā′tion.—v.t. Sem′itise, to render Semitic in language or religion.—ns. Sem′itism, a Semitic idiom; Sem′itist, a Hebrew scholar.—Semitic languages, Assyrian, Aramean, Hebrew, Phœnician, together with Arabic and Ethiopic. [Applied by J. G. Eichhorn in 1817 to the closely allied peoples represented in Gen. x. as descended from Shem.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of semitic in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of semitic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of semitic in a Sentence
What we saw yesterday was a premeditated, violent anti-Semitic hate crime, in other words, you can say it was an act of terror because it was premeditated, it was violent, and it was directed at the Jewish community.
Since the beginning of the year to the end of September, we recorded about 190 anti-Semitic incidents, about 70 % online.
I thought this was an anti-Semitic statement about the evil situation in the Middle East.
This is the worst kind of anti-Semitic rhetoric.
First boys are inundated by memes with subtly racist, sexist, and homophobic, anti-Semitic jokes and being kids, they don't see the nuance and they repeat and share, then they are shunned in school or socially.
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