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ARAMAIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Aramaic; Aramaic script
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Aramaic" is a kind of...):
script (a particular orthography or writing system)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Aramaic" is a kind of...):
Semitic (a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Aramaic"):
Biblical Aramaic (the form of Aramaic that was spoken in Palestine in the time of the New Testament)
Assyrian; Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (the language of modern Iraq)
Mandaean; Mandean (the form of Aramaic used by the Mandeans)
Derivation:
Aramaic (of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Aramaic (a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia)
Derivation:
Aramaic (a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia)
