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Semitic people
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 02:42:48

Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group formerly used in connection with ancient and modern peoples of the...

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Semitic
Rabu, 2025-07-23 09:22:22

Look up semitic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Semitic most commonly refers to the Semitic languages, a name used since the 1770s to refer to the...

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Semitic languages
Minggu, 2026-05-31 22:42:00

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South...

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Afroasiatic languages
Jumat, 2026-05-15 03:58:38

Afroasiatic languages (also known as the Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic languages) are a language family (or phylum) of about...

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Semitic religions
Senin, 2025-03-31 09:35:50

and Mandaeism. Ancient Semitic religion, polytheistic pre-Abrahamic religions practiced by Ancient Semitic peoples Semitic neopaganism, religions based...

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Antisemitism
Jumat, 2026-05-22 22:05:17

first by Steinschneider, who challenged Renan on account of his 'anti-Semitic prejudices' [i.e., his derogation of the Semites as a race]." Psychologist...

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Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 10:35:20

Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and later also...

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Semitic root
Kamis, 2026-05-14 01:40:53

The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root)...

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Ancient Semitic religion
Selasa, 2026-06-02 19:29:57

Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa. Since the term...

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Proto-Semitic language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:09:13

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Semitic languages. There is no consensus regarding the...

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West Semitic languages
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 19:15:35

is being considered for merging. › The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of Semitic languages. The term was first coined in 1883...

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Ethio-Semitic languages
Jumat, 2026-05-08 15:40:13

Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. They form...

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Antisemitic trope
Senin, 2026-06-01 01:44:35

Anti-Semitic Propaganda, Anti-Defamation League, 2001. Retrieved 12 June 2007. "The stress on Holocaust revisionism underscored the new anti-Semitic agenda...

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Northwest Semitic languages
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 00:15:34

Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages comprising indigenous languages of the Levant. It emerged from Proto-Semitic in the Early Bronze...

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Central Semitic languages
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 01:51:33

The Central Semitic languages comprise one of the two groups of West Semitic languages, the other being the South Semitic languages. They are therefore...

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East Semitic languages
Minggu, 2026-05-10 16:09:46

The East Semitic languages are one of three branches of the Semitic language family. This branch is known from three languages, Akkadian, Eblaite, and...

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Arabic
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:31:51

Arabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization...

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Semitic neopaganism
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:02:32

Semitic neopaganism is a group of religions based on or attempting to reconstruct the ancient Semitic religions, mostly practiced among Jews in the United...

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History of the alphabet
Minggu, 2026-05-17 05:14:16

it. It emerged during the 2nd millennium BC among a community of West Semitic laborers in the Sinai Peninsula. Exposed to the idea of writing through...

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Abrahamic religions
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 20:27:03

in Abu Dhabi built in the spirit of Abrahamic unity Abrahamites Ancient Semitic religion Din-i Ilahi Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement Chrislam Christianity...

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El (deity)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 18:53:31

boxes, or other symbols instead of Ugaritic alphabet. El is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one...

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South Semitic languages
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:45:23

language family is being considered for merging. › South Semitic is a putative branch of the Semitic languages, which form a branch of the larger Afroasiatic...

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Modern South Arabian
Senin, 2026-06-01 18:48:57

The Modern South Arabian languages, also known as Eastern South Semitic languages, are a group of endangered languages spoken by small populations inhabiting...

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Semitic Action
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 16:00:03

Semitic Action (Hebrew: הפעולה השמית, HaPeulah Hashemit) was a small Israeli political group of the 1950s and 1960s which sought the creation of a regional...

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Maltese language
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:12:44

Maltija) is a Central Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance superstrata. It is the only Semitic language officially written...

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Yahweh
Kamis, 2026-06-04 12:27:31

Yahweh was an ancient Semitic deity in the southeastern ancient Levant that became the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel-Samaria and Judah...

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Phoenician alphabet
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:27:29

alphabet proper uses 22 consonant letters—as an abjad used to write a Semitic language, it leaves vowel sounds implicit—though late varieties sometimes...

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Atlantic (Semitic) languages
Senin, 2025-11-03 19:01:16

Semitic or "Semitidic" (para-Semitic) origin are a disputed concept in historical linguistics put forward by Theo Vennemann. He proposed that Semitic-language-speakers...

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Abjad
Minggu, 2026-05-24 20:04:09

consonantal Semitic scripts such as Phoenician, Hebrew, and other Semitic proto-alphabets classified within the family of scripts used to write West Semitic languages...

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Akkadian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 01:00:16

ə-KAY-dee-ən; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑(𒌝), romanized: Akkadû(m)) is an extinct East Semitic language that is attested in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin...

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List of English words of Semitic origin
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:51:43

This is a list of English words of Semitic origin other than those solely of Arabic origin or Hebrew origin. Most of these words are found in ancient...

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Proto-Sinaitic script
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 05:46:34

evidence; it is only with the Bronze Age collapse and the rise of new Semitic kingdoms in the Levant that Proto-Canaanite is clearly attested (Byblos...

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Siculo-Arabic
Rabu, 2026-05-27 21:02:49

centuries developed into Maltese Language family Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Pre-Hilalian Pre-Hilalian Tunisian Arabic...

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Semitic people (disambiguation)
Jumat, 2016-09-30 05:00:53

Semitic people, Semitic peoples or Semites may refer to the racial and ethnic concept of Semitic race, in common use between late 18th to early 20th century...

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Hebrew language
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:50:07

Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by...

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Negus
Senin, 2026-06-01 21:05:54

Negus is the word for "king" in the Ethiopian Semitic languages and a title which was usually bestowed upon a regional ruler by the Negusa Nagast, or...

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Ab (Semitic)
Kamis, 2026-03-12 23:44:54

or Av (related to Akkadian abu), sometimes Abba, means "father" in most Semitic and Afroasiatic languages. ’Ab (أَب), from a theoretical, abstract form...

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Semitic romanization
Jumat, 2023-09-22 10:31:05

Semitic romanization is the process (generally called romanization) by which Semitic languages are transliterated into the Latin alphabet. The Semitic...

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Semitic studies
Senin, 2026-03-09 00:00:48

Semitic studies, or Semitology, is the academic field dedicated to the studies of Semitic languages and literatures and the history of the Semitic-speaking...

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South Semitic scripts
Jumat, 2025-09-26 02:36:48

template Infobox writing system is being considered for merging. › The South Semitic scripts are a cluster of alphabets that had derived from the Proto-Sinaitic...

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Baal
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:38:37

was a title and honorific meaning "owner" or "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people...

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Canaanite languages
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 04:56:11

referred to as Canaanite dialects, are one of four subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages of Western Asia. The others are the still spoken Aramaic and...

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Canaanite religion
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:32:25

W. F. Albright, for example, says that El Shaddai is a derivation of a Semitic stem that appears in the Akkadian shadû ('mountain') and shaddā'û or shaddû'a...

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Pe (Semitic letter)
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 04:14:33

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic fāʾ ف‎,...

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Indo-Semitic languages
Kamis, 2026-01-01 18:12:46

The Indo-Semitic hypothesis maintains that a genetic relationship exists between Indo-European and Semitic languages, and that the Indo-European and the...

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Aramaic
Senin, 2026-05-18 00:26:55

romanized: ˀərāmiṯ; Classical Syriac: ܐܪܡܐܝܬ, romanized: arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread...

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List of languages by number of native speakers
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 00:13:30

Judith (1997). "Arabic Dialects and Maltese". In Hetzron, Robert (ed.). The Semitic Languages. Routledge. pp. 263–311. ISBN 978-0-415-05767-7. Norman, Jerry...

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Biblical Hebrew
Rabu, 2026-04-22 09:41:21

form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel...

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Akkadian Empire
Selasa, 2026-05-19 19:24:01

/ˈɑːkɑːd/) and its surrounding region in modern-day Iraq, the empire united the Semitic Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one rule and exercised significant...

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Amharic
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 06:49:48

Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language...

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Asherah
Selasa, 2026-05-26 06:04:12

romanized: Aširat; Qatabanian: 𐩱𐩻𐩧𐩩 ʾṯrt) was a goddess in ancient Semitic religions. She also appears in Hittite writings as Ašerdu(š) or Ašertu(š)...

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Proto-Afroasiatic language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 21:25:14

considered for merging. › Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the hypothetical proto-language...

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Malik (name)
Selasa, 2026-04-14 05:12:04

given name of West Asian Semitic origin. It is both used as first name and surname originally mainly in Western Asia by Semitic speaking Christians, Muslims...

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T
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:57:31

texts. Taw was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic Taw, the Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), Old Italic and...

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Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions
Selasa, 2026-05-05 08:38:05

The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, are the primary extra-Biblical sources for understanding of the...

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M
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:44:39

"water", nt; the adoption as the Semitic letter for /m/ was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic word for "water", *mā(y)-. In English...

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Comparative Semitics
Selasa, 2026-05-19 17:04:55

Comparative Semitics is a field of comparative linguistics and philology concerning the Semitic languages. While existing as a field of study in and of...

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Malik
Senin, 2026-04-06 10:33:25

Mallick, Melekh) is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic, and as M-L-K in Northwest Semitic during the Late Bronze...

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Hebrews
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 16:07:08

Tiberian: ʿĪḇrīm / ʿĪḇrīyyīm; ISO 259-3: ʕibrim / ʕibriyim) were an ancient Semitic-speaking people. Historians mostly consider the Hebrews as synonymous with...

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List of languages by total number of speakers
Senin, 2026-06-01 01:01:14

Judith (1997). "Arabic Dialects and Maltese". In Hetzron, Robert (ed.). The Semitic Languages. Routledge. pp. 263–311. ISBN 978-0-415-05767-7. Norman, Jerry...

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Classification of Arabic languages
Jumat, 2026-05-29 02:58:41

position of Arabic within the group of Semitic languages has long been an active area of research. Historically, the Semitic languages originated in a relatively...

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Semitism
Selasa, 2025-10-21 00:08:09

Semiticism may refer to: Semitism (linguistics), a grammatical or syntactical behaviour in a language which reveals that the influence of a Semitic language...

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Tigrinya language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 20:41:24

Italian spelling rules as Tigrigna, is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is primarily...

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Modern Hebrew
Rabu, 2026-06-03 20:08:05

language spoken today. It is the only extant Canaanite language of the Semitic language family, as well as one of the oldest attested languages to be...

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Bel (mythology)
Minggu, 2026-03-15 20:52:10

as Beltis (Βελτις). Linguistically, Bel is an East Semitic form cognate with the Northwest Semitic Baal with the same meaning. Bel was especially used...

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Israeli antisemitic cartoons contest
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 23:26:38

The Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest (Hebrew: תחרות קריקטורות אנטישמיות ישראלית) was a cartoon contest initiated by two Israeli artists in response...

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Neo-Aramaic languages
Selasa, 2026-04-28 10:38:55

p. 505–531. Heinrichs 1990. Murre van den Berg 2008, p. 335–352. The Semitic Heritage of Northwest Syria, p. 271 “…Maaloula Syriacs have maintained...

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Ethiopia
Senin, 2026-05-25 21:26:38

the Cushitic and Semitic branches; namely, local Agaw peoples and Sabaeans from Southern Arabia. However, Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia...

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Phoenician language
Rabu, 2026-05-27 19:57:15

𐤔𐤐𐤕𐤟𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 lit. 'language of Canaan') is an extinct Canaanite language of the Semitic language family originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities...

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Dilmun
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 12:56:31

later 𒉌𒌇(𒆠), NI.TUKki = dilmunki; Arabic: دلمون) was an ancient East Semitic–speaking civilization in Eastern Arabia mentioned from the 3rd millennium...

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Mot (god)
Senin, 2026-06-01 07:19:14

death. The word belongs to a set of cognates meaning 'death' in other Semitic and Afro-Asiatic languages: Arabic موت mawt; Hebrew מות (mot or mavet;...

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K-B-D
Jumat, 2026-03-06 22:56:15

K-B-D (Hebrew: כ־ב־ד‎; East Semitic K-B-T; Arabic: ك-ب-د) is a triliteral Semitic root with the common meaning of to "be heavy", and thence "be important;...

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Mel Gibson
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:24:38

the original on June 13, 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2020. "Gibson's Anti-Semitic Tirade Alleged Cover Up". TMZ.com. July 28, 2006. Archived from the original...

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Š-L-M
Jumat, 2026-03-06 23:00:11

Shin-Lamedh-Mem is a triconsonantal root of many Semitic words (many of which are used as names). The root meaning translates to "whole, safe, intact...

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Philosemitism
Senin, 2026-05-25 04:19:40

logic of 'Concerning the Jews' and all philo-Semitism leads to the anti-Semitic beliefs that the latter seeks to deflate". Philosemitic ideas have also...

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Soqotri language
Senin, 2026-04-13 09:53:42

Soqotri is a South Semitic language spoken by the Soqotrans on the islands of the Socotra Archipelago in Yemen. Soqotri is one of six languages that form...

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Harari people
Kamis, 2026-04-30 00:08:56

(Harari: ጌ፞ይ ኡሱኣች / ݘٛىيْ أُسُأَڛْ‎, Gēy Usuach, "People of the City") are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group which inhabits the Horn of Africa. Members of this...

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Rothschild family
Selasa, 2026-06-02 18:49:25

Elders of Zion. NYU Press. p. 189. ISBN 9780814749456. ... there are anti-Semitic claims of a vast conspiracy by Jews that structurally replicate the Protocols...

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Punic language
Jumat, 2026-05-01 00:08:50

Phoenician language, a Canaanite language of the Northwest Semitic branch of the Semitic languages. An offshoot of the Phoenician language of coastal...

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Tigrayans
Selasa, 2026-06-02 11:36:35

merging. › The Tigrayan people (Tigrinya: ተጋሩ, romanized: Təgaru) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia...

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Salim (name)
Kamis, 2026-03-05 22:28:05

strictly transliterated as Salīm) is a name of Semitic origin from the root It derives from the Semitic tri-consonantal root s-l-m (س-ل-م) meaning "safe"...

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Amhara people
Minggu, 2026-05-17 05:04:38

(Amharic: አማራ, romanized: Āmara; Ge'ez: ዐምሐራ, romanized: ʾÄməḥära) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa, traditionally...

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Stereotypes of Jews
Kamis, 2026-04-30 15:29:48

which argued that such jokes "represent a resurgence of sexist and anti-Semitic invective masking a scrim of misogyny." The stereotype was partly a construct...

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S
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:56:08

Its name in English is ess (pronounced /ˈɛs/ ), plural esses. Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ (as in 'ship')....

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Safaitic
Senin, 2026-05-25 17:37:26

Safaitic (Arabic: ٱلصَّفَائِيَّة Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a variety of the South Semitic scripts that was used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan...

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Journal of Semitic Studies
Senin, 2026-03-30 00:52:20

Asia portal The Journal of Semitic Studies is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1955. It covers research of the modern...

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Europe
Selasa, 2026-05-26 15:15:54

between Europa's name and any form of the Semitic word is very poor", while Beekes considers a connection to Semitic languages improbable. Most major world...

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Brahmi script
Jumat, 2026-05-08 12:07:19

proposed Semitic origins of the script, instead stating that the interaction between the Indic and the Semitic worlds before the rise of the Semitic scripts...

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Syria
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:33:54

known written Semitic languages after Akkadian. Recent classifications of the Eblaite language have shown that it was an East Semitic language, closely...

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Geers's law
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:37:21

inherited Semitic roots whose emphatics were usually dissimilated. Compare: Proto-Semitic *ṣ̂bṭ > Akkadian ṣabātu "to seize" Proto-Semitic *ḳṭn > Akkadian...

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Antisemitism in Europe
Jumat, 2026-06-05 20:53:27

reliable correlations between the refugee influx and the numbers of anti-Semitic attacks". In February 2019, crime data released by the government for 2018...

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Classical Arabic
Rabu, 2026-04-22 01:17:48

Arabic is considered a conservative language among Semitic languages; it preserved the complete Proto-Semitic three grammatical cases and declension (ʾIʿrab)...

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Shin (letter)
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 08:22:16

Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first and penultimate letter of the Semitic abjads...

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Ugaritic alphabet
Senin, 2026-04-20 05:36:28

written in Ugaritic provide the earliest evidence of both the North Semitic and South Semitic orders of the alphabet, which gave rise to the alphabetic orders...

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Allah
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:05:42

al-ilāh (الاله, lit. 'the god') and is linguistically related to other Semitic God names, such as Aramaic (ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ ʼAlāhā) and Hebrew (אֱלוֹהַּ ʾĔlōah)...

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Sumer
Senin, 2026-05-18 23:38:21

romanized: šumeru) comes from the Akkadian name for the "Sumerians", the ancient non-Semitic-speaking inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia. In their inscriptions, the...

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Modern Standard Arabic
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:56:18

Language Dialects Wolfdietrich Fischer. 1997. "Classical Arabic," The Semitic Languages. London: Routledge. Pg 189. al Nassir, Abdulmunʿim Abdulamir...

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Canaan
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 17:03:01

archaeological culture is being considered for merging. › Canaan was an ancient Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant during the late...

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Septuagint
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 04:31:08

written in Koine Greek. Some sections contain Semiticisms, which are idioms and phrases based on Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Aramaic. Other books...

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Isogloss
Senin, 2026-02-09 23:41:11

ancient Northwest Semitic languages is w becoming y at the beginning of a word. Thus, in Proto-Semitic and subsequent non-Northwest Semitic languages and...

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Criterion of contextual credibility
Minggu, 2026-05-31 16:37:09

criterion of Semitisms and Palestinian background or the criterion of Semitic language phenomena and Palestinian environment is a tool used by Biblical...

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Assyrian language
Jumat, 2025-10-10 08:15:47

ancient East Semitic Akkadian language In modern Assyrian terminology, related to Neo-Aramaic languages: Suret language, a modern West Semitic language that...

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Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:28:37

of sacred stones constituted one of the most important practices of the Semitic speaking peoples, including Arabs. Cult images of a deity were most often...

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E
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:23:51

its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter hê, which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling...

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Indo-European languages
Rabu, 2026-05-27 02:26:54

interspersed in texts that are otherwise in the unrelated Akkadian language (a Semitic language) found in texts of the Assyrian colony of Kültepe in eastern Anatolia...

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Y
Kamis, 2026-05-21 18:56:57

form respectively. The oldest direct ancestor of the letter Y was the Semitic letter waw (pronounced as [w]), from which also come F, U, V, and W. See...

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Eblaite language
Minggu, 2026-02-08 21:18:54

ˈiːblə-/, also known as Eblan ISO 639-3), or Palaeosyrian, is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC in Northern Syria. It was named...

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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:27:27

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE, previously the Harvard Semitic Museum) is a museum founded in 1889. It moved into its present location...

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Tehom
Selasa, 2026-04-07 03:46:49

Tehom (Hebrew: תְּהוֹם təhôm) is a Northwest Semitic and Biblical Hebrew word meaning "the deep" or "abyss" (literally "the deeps"). It is used to describe...

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List of ethnic groups in Ethiopia
Jumat, 2026-06-05 20:36:12

people in Ethiopia speak Afro-Asiatic languages, mainly of the Cushitic and Semitic branches. The former includes the Oromo and Somali, and the latter includes...

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Aziz
Minggu, 2026-05-03 23:10:48

Hebrew: עָזִז, romanized: ʿAzīz; Akkadian: 𒀀𒍣𒍪, romanized: ʿEzīzū) is a Semitic name from the root two-zayin. In the Hebrew Bible, the root two-zayin (ז-ז‎)...

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Mina (unit)
Kamis, 2026-04-23 17:55:05

grams of silver (18 troy ounces). The word mina comes from the ancient Semitic root m-n-w/m-n-y 'to count', Akkadian manû, Hebrew: מָנָה (mana), Imperial...

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Languages of pre-Islamic Arabia
Minggu, 2026-02-15 12:22:03

were all Semitic languages, including the Ancient North Arabian languages, Ancient South Arabian languages, and Arabic (being a Central Semitic language)...

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Akkadian
Jumat, 2021-09-24 19:38:57

inhabitants of the Akkadian Empire Akkadian language, an extinct Eastern Semitic language Akkadian literature, literature in this language Akkadian cuneiform...

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Bet (letter)
Kamis, 2026-05-28 02:36:50

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician...

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Astarte
Kamis, 2026-05-21 06:01:36

Near Eastern goddess ʿAṯtart. ʿAṯtart was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar. Astarte was worshipped from the Bronze Age...

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Sabaic
Rabu, 2026-06-03 05:54:50

Humlanites, Ghaymānites, and Radmānites. Sabaic belongs to the South Arabian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Sabaic is distinguished from...

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2018 Berlin antisemitic attack
Senin, 2026-06-01 01:05:05

Tagesspiegel, 20 April 2018 Attacker in anti-Semitic video turns himself in to police, DW.com, 19 April 2018 "Anti-Semitic crimes increase dramatically in Germany"...

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Religions of the ancient Near East
Minggu, 2026-05-03 23:40:12

Proto-Semitic religion include Canaanite religion and Arabian religion. Judaism is a development of Canaanite religion, both Indo-European and Semitic religions...

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Haitham
Rabu, 2026-04-08 20:46:41

from the ancient Semitic triliteral root H‑Y‑TH, associated in Arabic with a young eagle or hawk, with underlying roots in Proto‑Semitic meanings related...

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Yahwism
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:39:06

merging. › Yahwism, also known as the Israelite religion, was the ancient Semitic religion of the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. The Israelite religion...

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Construct state
Senin, 2026-03-09 09:11:14

particularly common in Semitic languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac), in Berber languages, and in the extinct Egyptian language. In Semitic languages, nouns...

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Gurage people
Jumat, 2026-06-05 10:18:14

being considered for merging. › Gurage (/ɡʊəˈrɑːɡeɪ/, Gurage: ጉራጌ) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group inhabiting Ethiopia. They inhabit the Gurage Zone...

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N
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:46:38

It is speculated by some, such as archeologist Douglas Petrovich, that Semitic speakers working in Egypt adapted hieroglyphs to create the first alphabet...

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Deir Alla inscription
Senin, 2026-02-16 10:25:52

Archaeological Museum in Amman. It is written in a peculiar Northwest Semitic dialect, has provoked much debate among scholars and has had a strong impact...

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Wolf Leslau
Kamis, 2026-04-02 08:22:27

in Fullerton, California) was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethiopia. Leslau was born in Krzepice...

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History of antisemitism in the United States
Minggu, 2026-05-24 07:01:06

2014). "Miami Beach Cars Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Messages". NBC. Retrieved July 29, 2014. "Anti-Semitic Vandalism Found at South Florida Synagogue"...

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Mem
Senin, 2026-03-02 23:30:11

template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Mem (also spelled Meem, Meme, or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including...

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Greek alphabet
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:46:27

very similar and sometimes identical to the West Semitic letters. 4 The letter sequence between the Semitic and Greek alphabets is identical. (Naveh 1982)"...

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Tsade
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:25:00

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Tsade (also spelled ṣade, ṣādē, ṣaddi, ṣad, tzadi, sadhe, tzaddik) is the eighteenth...

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Moabite language
Senin, 2025-11-17 19:26:31

or dialect of the Canaanite languages, themselves a branch of Northwest Semitic languages, formerly spoken in the region described in the Bible as Moab...

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Nick Cannon
Jumat, 2026-05-08 03:39:26

Cannon was terminated due to his promotion of "hateful speech and... anti-Semitic conspiracy theories". Two days later, Cannon released an apology only for...

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Aleph
Kamis, 2026-05-28 02:35:21

Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Aleph (also spelled alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads...

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Q-D-Š
Kamis, 2026-04-23 08:00:36

dictionary. Q-D-Š is a triconsonantal Semitic root meaning "sacred, holy", derived from a concept central to ancient Semitic religion. From a basic verbal meaning...

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Syriac language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 08:49:56

of consonants typically found in Semitic languages. Syriac also has a rich array of sibilants: As with most Semitic languages, the vowels of Syriac are...

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Jonas C. Greenfield
Jumat, 2026-05-08 04:47:03

1995 in Jerusalem) was an American scholar of Semitic languages, who published in the fields of Semitic epigraphy, Aramaic studies, and Qumran studies...

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As-salamu alaykum
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:18:03

least to Laqit bin Yamar al-Ayadi (6th century), and cognates in older Semitic languages—Aramaic šlāmā ʿalḵōn (ܫܠܵܡܵܐ ܥܲܠܟ݂ܘܿܢ) and Hebrew shalom aleichem...

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Fertile Crescent
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 02:45:15

a non-Semitic language isolate that displays a Sprachbund-type relationship with neighbouring Semitic Akkadian Elamite language: a non-Semitic language...

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Papaver umbonatum
Rabu, 2026-05-06 04:47:05

family Papaveraceae. This species is also known more commonly as bossed or Semitic poppy. It is often misidentified as Papaver rhoeas (corn poppy, common...

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Amorite language
Kamis, 2026-04-16 04:24:30

Amorite is an extinct early Semitic language, formerly spoken during the Bronze Age by the Amorite tribes prominent in ancient Near Eastern history. It...

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Arabs
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 04:59:36

language in the wake of the Arab conquests, "Arab" largely referred to the Semitic inhabitants—both settled and nomadic—of the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian...

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National Anti-Masonic and Anti-semitic League
Minggu, 2026-04-19 01:38:25

The National Anti-Masonic and Anti-semitic League was a Spanish anti-masonic and anti-semitic organization founded in 1912 by the Catholic and Carlist...

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Maghrebi Arabic
Rabu, 2026-05-13 20:33:26

Hassaniya and Saharan Arabic dialects. Maghrebi Arabic has a predominantly Semitic and Arabic vocabulary, although it contains a significant number of Berber...

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Sin (letter)
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:20:53

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › ‹ The template Infobox grapheme is being considered for merging. › ‹ The template...

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Handbuch der Nordsemitischen Epigraphik
Jumat, 2026-03-20 18:10:21

Nordsemitischen Epigraphik, nebst ausgewählten Inschriften (“Handbook of North-Semitic Epigraphy, together with selected inscriptions”) is a two-volume reference...

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Sacha Baron Cohen
Kamis, 2026-06-04 19:49:54

All in the Family did years ago." Regarding his portrayal as the anti-Semitic Borat, Baron Cohen says the segments are a "dramatic demonstration of how...

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Sumerian language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 11:47:23

early inscriptions were read top to bottom from the right. Akkadian, a Semitic language, gradually replaced Sumerian as the primary spoken language in...

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Self-hating Jew
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:02:26

rhetoric of antisemitism: "criticism of subgroups of Jews which drew on anti-Semitic rhetoric were common in 19th and 20th century arguments over Jewish identity"...

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Yodh
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:06:19

template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including...

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P
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:50:52

worldwide. Its name in English is pee (pronounced /ˈpiː/ ), plural pees. The Semitic Pê (mouth), as well as the Greek Π or π (Pi), and the Etruscan and Latin...

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Facebook content management controversies
Selasa, 2026-06-02 10:31:42

Victoria (March 29, 2019). "Instagram refuses to remove Alex Jones' anti-semitic post". The Independent. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved...

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Michael Douglas
Minggu, 2026-05-17 15:08:40

2025. Hutchison, Bill (March 16, 2015). "Michael Douglas reveals anti-Semitic attack on 14-year-old son Dylan in Europe". New York Daily News. Archived...

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Weaponization of antisemitism
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:42:30

phase in Zionist propaganda" in which "to be anti-Zionist was to be anti-Semitic". Propaganda theorist Noam Chomsky has written that, although Sykes traced...

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Shophet
Selasa, 2025-06-24 03:09:25

In several ancient Semitic-speaking cultures and associated historical regions, the shopheṭ or shofeṭ (plural shophetim or shofetim; Hebrew: שׁוֹפֵט,...

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Adnan (name)
Rabu, 2026-04-29 08:50:17

Adnan, an ancient ancestor of various Semitic tribes. The etymological meaning of the name is settler, from a Semitic root `dn; "to stay, abide". The literal...

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Fred Trump
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:38:11

Frank alleges was anti-Semitic. Fred Jr.'s daughter, Mary L. Trump, later also claimed her grandfather was "quite anti-Semitic". As U.S. president, Donald...

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Babylonia
Minggu, 2026-04-26 15:54:40

the written Akkadian language for official use, despite its Northwest Semitic-speaking Amorite founders and Kassite successors, who spoke a language...

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Lahmu
Minggu, 2025-12-21 05:34:19

creatures from Mesopotamian mythology. While the name has its origin in a Semitic language, Lahmu was present in Sumerian sources in pre-Sargonic times already...

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List of Spanish words of Semitic origin
Rabu, 2025-07-30 18:09:00

This is a list of Spanish words that come from Semitic languages (excluding Arabic, which can be found in the article, Influence of Arabic on Spanish)...

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Taw
Kamis, 2026-05-28 02:56:09

template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including...

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Amorites
Selasa, 2026-05-26 17:55:00

The Amorites (/ˈæməˌraɪts/) were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people who emerged from western Mesopotamia. Initially appearing in...

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Semitism (linguistics)
Rabu, 2025-10-22 03:31:23

Semitism or Semiticism is a grammatical, syntactical, lexical, or idiomatic feature in a language that reveals influence from a Semitic language such...

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D
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:22:19

worldwide. Its name in English is dee (pronounced /ˈdiː/ ), plural dees. The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door...

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List of British Jewish entertainers
Rabu, 2026-06-03 18:53:38

in Nazi Germany. In the early 1930s, the Imperial Fascist League's anti-semitic newspaper The Fascist sought to isolate the Jews in British cinema. Stephen...

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Sumerian religion
Selasa, 2026-04-21 15:56:19

the underworld. The later Mesopotamians knew this underworld by its East Semitic name: Irkalla. During the Akkadian Period, Ereshkigal's role as the ruler...

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Chemosh
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 01:58:39

כְּמוֹשׁ, romanized: Kəmōš) is a Canaanite deity worshipped by Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples who occupied the region known as Moab, in modern-day Jordan...

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Laryngeal theory
Selasa, 2026-05-19 23:20:49

which the Semitic languages belong: Semitic *ʼ-b-y 'to want, desire' ~ PIE [*hyebʰ-] 'to have sex' Semitic *ʼ-m-m/y ~ PIE [*h₁em-] 'to take' Semitic *ʼin-a...

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Shalom
Minggu, 2026-03-29 01:39:16

Shlama in Neo-Aramaic dialects, and sälam in Ethiopian Semitic languages from the Proto-Semitic root Š-L-M. In Hebrew, words are built on "roots", generally...

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Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Senin, 2026-06-01 22:21:38

of Canaanite (Semitic) descent, owing to the foreign origins of the names of some of their rulers and princes, like Ipqu (West Semitic for "grace"), Yakbim...

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Geʽez
Kamis, 2026-05-14 13:18:04

to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic language. The language originates from what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea...

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Armenian mythology
Kamis, 2026-03-12 21:01:53

Armenian in nature, the pantheon was modified through Hurro-Urartian, Semitic, Iranian, and Greek influences. One common motif that spanned many or all...

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Happy Merchant
Senin, 2026-03-23 19:07:27

symbol "The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image". BuzzFeed News. February 5, 2015. p. 11. Archived from the original...

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Lamedh
Minggu, 2026-01-18 03:36:55

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew...

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Proto-Afroasiatic homeland
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:24:33

Proto-Afroasiatic could have been extant is c. 4000 BC, after which Egyptian and the Semitic languages are firmly attested. However, in all likelihood these languages...

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ʿAṯtar
Minggu, 2026-01-25 06:57:39

ʿAṯtar is a deity whose role, name, and even gender varied across ancient Semitic religion. In both genders, ʿAṯtar is identified with the planet Venus,...

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Ayin
Rabu, 2026-02-18 22:12:00

Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ⟨ʿ ⟩) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts,...

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Zayin
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:19:06

Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads,...

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Adrammelech
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 02:50:53

romanized: ʾAḏrammeleḵ; Koine Greek: Ἀδραμέλεχ Adramélekh) is an ancient Semitic god mentioned briefly by name in the Book of Kings, where he is described...

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Imperial Aramaic
Minggu, 2026-05-24 20:15:33

"Imperial Aramaic as an Administrative Language of the Achaemenid Period". The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook. Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter...

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Pan-Semitism
Rabu, 2025-05-07 21:42:00

Pan-Semitism is a pan-nationalist ideology that espouses the unification of Semitic-speaking peoples, which mostly included Arabs and Jews, but also Syriac...

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Paganism
Rabu, 2026-05-27 05:22:47

religion Religions of the ancient Near East Ancient Egyptian religion Ancient Semitic religion Ancient Iranian religion Ancient Mesopotamian religion Ludwig...

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K
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:12:27

which was taken from the west Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open hand. This, in turn, was likely adapted by Semitic tribes who had lived in Egypt from...

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Broken plural
Selasa, 2026-05-26 17:39:31

plural) is an irregular plural form of a noun or adjective found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic languages such as the Berber languages...

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Yemeni Arabic
Jumat, 2026-05-01 07:02:49

languages, which are members of an independent branch of the Semitic family. Another separate Semitic family once spoken in the region is Old South Arabian;...

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Zionist antisemitism
Jumat, 2026-05-15 11:40:53

Jews, "anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies". In constructing their image of the "new Jew" or...

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Institute of Semitic Studies
Jumat, 2025-08-01 06:16:02

The Institute of Semitic Studies (ISS) is a nonprofit independent research institution based in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, dedicated to the...

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Eid al-Adha
Jumat, 2026-05-29 11:50:32

scabbard, sheath; small boat; sacrifice". Arthur Jeffery recognizes the same Semitic root, but believes the sense of the term to have entered Arabic through...

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Goyim Defense League
Minggu, 2026-05-24 09:34:19

anti-Semitic group". CBS News. Retrieved July 25, 2019. Oster, Marcy (December 2, 2018). "Brett Favre, other celebrities duped into recording anti-Semitic...

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Ashima
Kamis, 2026-01-01 17:44:39

Modern: ʾĂšīmaʾ, Tiberian: ʾĂšīmāʾ; Latin: Asima) is an ancient Semitic goddess. Ashima was a West Semitic goddess of fate related to the Akkadian goddess Shimti...

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Tihamah
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 05:56:47

Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb. Tihāmat is the Proto-Semitic language's term for 'sea'. Tiamat was the ancient Mesopotamian god of the...

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Aramaism
Jumat, 2026-04-03 07:41:53

linguistic feature that originates from Aramaic (one of the Northwest Semitic languages) and appears in another language (particularly Hebrew or Arabic)...

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Canary Mission
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 06:02:38

that they "entirely condemn and denounce the racist, anti-Black, and anti-Semitic statements made by some of the individuals who were previous students and...

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Lebanese Aramaic
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 07:53:14

Syriac loanwords in Arabic, other words are cognates from a shared Proto-Semitic origin. Many Aramaic words and expressions have survived the transition...

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Thomas Oden Lambdin
Selasa, 2026-03-17 04:02:14

(October 31, 1927 – May 8, 2020) was an American linguist and scholar of the Semitic and Egyptian languages. Lambdin was born on October 31, 1927 in Frederick...

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Waw (letter)
Selasa, 2026-05-12 22:03:40

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician...

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Ẓāʾ
Kamis, 2026-05-21 14:30:42

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › ‹ The template Infobox grapheme is being considered for merging. › ‹ The template...

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Babylonian
Selasa, 2021-12-28 04:03:11

to: Babylon, a Semitic Akkadian city/state of ancient Mesopotamia founded in 1894 BC Babylonia, an ancient Akkadian-speaking Semitic nation-state and...

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Philistine language
Minggu, 2026-05-10 08:08:47

immigrant Philistines originated among "sea peoples". There are hints of non-Semitic vocabulary and onomastics, but the inscriptions are enigmatic: a number...

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Zay language
Selasa, 2025-11-04 00:46:18

Afroasiatic language of the Semitic branch spoken in Ethiopia. It is one of the Gurage languages in the Ethiopian Semitic group. The Zay language has...

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I
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:08:21

Egyptological yod Ɪ ɪ : Small capital I ꟾ : Long I ꟷ : Sideways I 𐤉 : Semitic letter Yodh, from which the following symbols originally derive: Ι ι: Greek...

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List of religions and spiritual traditions
Kamis, 2026-06-04 22:24:03

Gentile Nova Roma Roman Traditional Movement Kemetism Kemetic Orthodoxy Semitic neopaganism Rodnovery (a.k.a. Slavic neopaganism) Native Polish Church...

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Teth
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:27:45

template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Teth, also written as Ṭēth or Tet, is the ninth letter of the Semitic abjads, including...

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Ethnic groups in the Middle East
Rabu, 2026-04-29 23:06:02

the Middle East Iranian diaspora Iranian peoples Jewish diaspora Jews Semitic people Turkic peoples "The Middle East", britannica.com, 21 September 2023...

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Star of Ishtar
Kamis, 2025-10-30 03:12:56

Mesopotamian symbol of the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna and her East Semitic counterpart Ishtar. The owl was also one of Ishtar's primary symbols. Ishtar...

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Mimation
Senin, 2025-05-05 08:10:08

many Semitic abjads) which occurs in some Semitic languages. This occurs in Akkadian in singular nouns. It was also present in the Proto-Semitic language...

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Geʽez script
Jumat, 2026-03-27 11:42:17

has been adapted to write other languages, mostly Ethiopian and Eritrean Semitic, particularly Amharic in Ethiopia, and Tigrinya in both Eritrea and Ethiopia...

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Edward Ullendorff
Selasa, 2026-03-10 08:09:17

Ullendorff FBA (25 January 1920 – 6 March 2011) was a British scholar of Semitic languages and Ethiopian studies. Ullendorff was born on 25 January 1920...

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Dalet
Kamis, 2026-03-05 10:55:24

template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including...

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Dwarves in Middle-earth
Senin, 2026-06-01 22:31:15

many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic, obviously, constructed to be Semitic." This raises the question, examined by Rebecca Brackmann...

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Nun (letter)
Senin, 2026-05-18 14:34:17

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Nun is the fourteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician nūn...

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Old Arabic
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 01:35:31

descendants are classified as Central Semitic languages, which is an intermediate language group containing the Northwest Semitic languages (e.g., Aramaic and...

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South Arabia
Kamis, 2026-06-04 16:27:39

and the unrelated Modern South Arabian languages, both members of the Semitic family. The term Yamnat was mentioned in Old South Arabian inscriptions...

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Sebat Bet Gurage language
Selasa, 2026-04-07 23:46:29

Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Ethio-Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia. One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet...

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Kaph
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 23:43:07

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › This article contains Ugaritic text. Without proper rendering support, you may...

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Muhammad the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
Jumat, 2025-05-30 14:17:39

Portrait has the author writing about Semitic root words. Arabic texts are traced back to their original Semitic root words, in reference to language and...

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Vav-consecutive
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 21:11:35

waw-consecutive (וי״ו ההיפוך‎) is a grammatical construction in Northwest Semitic languages, most notably in Biblical Hebrew, but with parallels in Moabite...

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Robert Hetzron
Selasa, 2026-05-12 18:04:21

Afro-Asiatic languages, as well as for his study of Cushitic and Ethiopian Semitic languages. Born in Hungary, as a child, Hetzron received both a general...

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Ugaritic
Selasa, 2026-05-26 15:25:58

alphabet. Ugaritic (/ˌ(j)uːɡəˈrɪtɪk/ (Y)OOG-ə-RIT-ik) is an extinct Northwest Semitic language known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeologists...

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Hamites
Minggu, 2026-05-31 08:02:58

Afroasiatic language family, which, together with the Semitic branch, was formerly labelled "Hamito-Semitic". Because the three Hamitic branches have not been...

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Edward Robertson (Semitic scholar)
Sabtu, 2024-01-06 18:10:46

(10 October 1879 – 29 April 1964) was a Scottish academic, Professor of Semitic Studies at the Victoria University of Manchester and afterwards Librarian...

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Shalim
Selasa, 2025-10-28 23:45:43

and Shahar as the Morning Star. His name derives from the triconsonantal Semitic root Š-L-M ("whole, safe, sound, peace"). An Ugaritic myth known as The...

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He (letter)
Minggu, 2026-04-12 23:25:11

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician hē 𐤄, Hebrew...

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Qoph
Selasa, 2026-03-17 08:16:45

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Kike (given name)
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:12:07

shortform for Kikelomo. It is unrelated to the differently-pronounced anti-Semitic slur. Kike Barja (born 1997), Spanish football winger, full name Enrique...

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Al-Lat
Minggu, 2026-05-31 23:39:47

the image of al-Lat.. This suggests potentially a proto-Semitic or later developed Pan-Semitic longstanding association with barley-meal. In a euhemeristic...

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Richard C. Steiner
Selasa, 2026-05-12 18:52:17

Richard C. Steiner (born 1945) is a Semitist and a scholar of Northwest Semitic languages, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern texts. His work has focused...

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Subhas Chandra Bose
Selasa, 2026-06-02 01:52:34

its inhabitants. Bose's anti-Jewish slur was no different from the anti-Semitic remarks in the League deliberations referred to earlier. Bose also opposed...

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Heth
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:01:45

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Abjad numerals
Rabu, 2026-05-27 03:20:30

(A-B-G-D) of the Semitic alphabet, including the Aramaic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Phoenician alphabet, and other scripts for Semitic languages. These...

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Ras (title)
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 07:45:56

belonging to a wider Semitic titulary tradition, derived from the root r-ʾ-s, meaning “head” or “chief”, which is attested across the Semitic language family...

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Ancient South Arabian
Kamis, 2026-06-04 08:41:40

Epigraphic South Arabian, Ṣayhadic, or Yemenite, is a group of extinct Semitic languages attested mainly in inscriptions from pre-Islamic South Arabia...

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Suteans
Minggu, 2026-05-10 20:44:54

Suteans (Akkadian: Sutī’ū, possibly from Amorite: Šetī’u) were a nomadic Semitic people who lived throughout the Levant, Canaan, and Mesopotamia, specifically...

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Aphrodite
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:57:46

derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. Aphrodite's...

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Jasper (given name)
Minggu, 2026-05-17 10:02:19

Jasper (of Persian origin) is unrelated to that of the gemstone jasper (of Semitic origin). Jasper may refer to: Jasper van den Bos (1634-1656), Dutch marine...

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Gimel
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 05:23:48

Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Gimel is the third (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order) letter of the Semitic abjads...

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Biblical languages
Senin, 2025-12-08 07:24:56

of the oldest surviving texts are in Koine Greek, but show features of Semitic languages – usually Semitisms – such as Hebrew or Aramaic, leading some...

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Hamas
Senin, 2026-06-01 14:40:22

scholar Joas Wagemakers argues that the 2017 charter clearly omits all anti-Semitic elements and instead takes a nationalist viewpoint. Scholar Leïla Seurat...

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Myrrh
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 23:22:51

Myrrh (/mɜːr/, MUR; from an unidentified ancient Semitic language, مر; from Arabic, מוֹר /mor/; from Hebrew, see § Etymology) is a gum-resin extracted...

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Rephaite
Jumat, 2026-04-03 23:12:51

Bible, as well as non-Jewish ancient texts from the region, the Northwest Semitic term Rephaite, or Repha'im (Biblical Hebrew: רְפָאִים, romanized: rəp̄āʾīm;...

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Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum
Rabu, 2026-03-11 19:38:23

Inscriptionum Semiticarum ("Corpus of Semitic Inscriptions", abbreviated CIS) is a collection of ancient inscriptions in Semitic languages produced since the end...

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Emphatic consonant
Minggu, 2026-01-18 05:42:31

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In Semitic linguistics, an emphatic consonant is an obstruent consonant which originally...

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German Social Party (German Empire)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 08:44:40

The German Social Party (German: Deutschsoziale Partei or DSP) was a far-right political party active in the German Empire. The group was established in...

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Abyssinia
Kamis, 2026-02-26 20:13:19

Ethiopia until the mid-20th century and primarily designates the Ethio-Semitic speaking inhabitants of the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The origin...

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Jean-Baptiste Glaire
Kamis, 2024-08-22 00:03:37

at Paris, the courses of which he followed simultaneously with those of Semitic languages at the Sorbonne. After his ordination to priesthood, in 1822...

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Johannes Pedersen (theologian)
Senin, 2025-12-22 13:23:28

November 1883 – 22 December 1977) was a Danish Old Testament scholar and Semitic philologist. Source: Pedersen was born at Illebølle in Langeland Municipality...

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Nabu
Minggu, 2026-04-12 00:10:57

Akkadian nabû means 'announcer' or 'authorised person', derived from the Semitic root n-b-y or nbʾ. It is cognate with Classical Syriac: ܢܒܝܐ, romanized: nəḇiyyā...

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French Popular Party
Jumat, 2026-05-22 21:44:41

(French: Parti populaire français, PPF) was a French fascist and anti-semitic political party led by Jacques Doriot before and during World War II. It...

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Ancient North Arabian
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:35:37

"Ancient North Arabian" is defined negatively. It refers to all of the South Semitic scripts except Ancient South Arabian (ASA) regardless of their genetic...

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Central Asian Arabic
Minggu, 2026-03-22 00:54:12

Jastrow, Otto (2004-08-02). "Uzbekistan Arabic: A Language Created by Semitic-Iranian-Turkic Linguistic Convergence". In Csató, Éva Ágnes; Isaksson,...

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Languages of Europe
Jumat, 2026-05-29 20:09:09

Turkic families. Still smaller groups — such as Basque (language isolate), Semitic languages (Maltese, c. 0.5 million), and various languages of the Caucasus...

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Alpha
Selasa, 2026-06-02 20:10:18

from the Phoenician letter aleph ⟨𐤀⟩, whose name comes from the West Semitic word for 'ox'. Letters that arose from alpha include the Latin letter ⟨A⟩...

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Etymology of Arab
Senin, 2025-09-15 11:37:58

that of the place name Arabia. The root of the word has many meanings in Semitic languages including desert, nomad, merchant, and comprehensible with all...

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L
Rabu, 2026-05-27 21:28:49

ł, "L with stroke" used in Polish and many neighbouring languages 𐤋 : Semitic letter Lamedh, from which the following symbols originally derive Λ λ :...

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Ernest Renan
Senin, 2026-05-25 20:16:07

February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist...

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Jewish magic
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 10:24:07

concerns the use of magic Semitic neopaganism, a group of religions based on or attempting to reconstruct the ancient Semitic religions Witchcraft and...

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German Reform Party
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 15:16:49

The German Reform Party (German: Deutsche Reformpartei or DRP) was a far-right political party active in the German Empire. It had antisemitism as its...

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Himyaritic language
Senin, 2026-04-13 05:32:54

Himyaritic is a sparsely attested Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Yemen by the Himyarites. It was a Semitic language but either did not belong...

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Ancient North Arabian languages
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 10:52:00

Ancient North Arabian languages are a hypothetical family of ancient Semitic languages represented in the Ancient North Arabian scripts. Among the languages...

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O
Senin, 2026-05-25 19:06:20

indicator Calligraphic O (𝒪, 𝓸): Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 𐤏 : Semitic letter Ayin, from which the following symbols originally derive: Ω ω :...

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Theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas
Senin, 2025-12-29 01:55:52

or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC. The Sargasso Sea may have been known...

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Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch
Senin, 2025-06-02 20:34:50

Oscar Menahem Deutsch (1829 – 12 May 1873) was a German Jewish scholar of Semitic studies, the Talmud and Middle Eastern studies. Deutsch was born in Neisse...

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H
Selasa, 2026-05-26 22:23:59

Norwegian and Swedish: hå [ˈho] Polish: ha [ˈxa] Czech: ha [ˈɦa] The original Semitic letter Heth most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative...

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Tigrinya people
Minggu, 2026-04-05 08:13:21

and semantically untenable. The term Kebessa might derive from the South-Semitic root kbs meaning "to embrace" or "to encompass," and its original meaning...

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Ḍād
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:26:25

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Resh
Kamis, 2026-06-04 06:40:32

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Resh /rɛʃ/ is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician...

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Stanislav Segert
Minggu, 2026-02-08 22:05:02

30, 2005) was a prominent scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on North-West Semitic languages. Born in Prague, then Czechoslovakia...

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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:30:04

it was merely an outlandish hoax. One described it as reading "like a Semitic philologist's erotic nightmare." The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross provoked...

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Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 06:40:20

"Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White" was a 1967 essay written by American writer James Baldwin that first appeared in the Sunday magazine...

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Śawt
Sabtu, 2025-11-08 06:22:48

from a Proto-Semitic voiceless lateral fricative *ś [ɬ], like the Welsh pronunciation of the ll in llwyd. It survived only in South Semitic as an independent...

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Sanskrit
Selasa, 2026-06-02 23:31:13

presumptive Semitic prototype, perhaps under the influence of a preexisting Indian tradition of phonetic analysis. However, the Semitic hypothesis is...

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Suret language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 12:42:06

the later phase of the Assyrian Empire, which slowly displaced the East Semitic Akkadian language beginning around the 10th century BC. They have been...

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Ethnic groups in the Caucasus
Senin, 2026-05-25 06:58:40

Buddhist government. Caucasians that speak languages belonging to the Semitic language family: Assyrians in the Caucasus number approximately 35,000...

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Prothesis (linguistics)
Minggu, 2026-05-24 08:10:03

Proto-Slavic *ǫtroba ("internal organs") vs. Polish wątroba ("liver") Some Semitic languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, regularly break up initial two-consonant...

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Baal (disambiguation)
Rabu, 2026-02-18 01:40:53

Look up Baal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Baal is a Semitic term for "Lord" or "owner". Baal may also refer to: Baal (demon), a Christian demon...

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Editora Revisão
Kamis, 2026-03-19 10:04:42

Editora Revisão is a publisher from Rio Grande do Sul specialized in anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial literature, in addition to publishing works on Nazism...

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Samekh
Rabu, 2026-04-08 22:35:24

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › Samekh or samech is the fifteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician...

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Nazism
Kamis, 2026-06-04 10:16:31

masses along with it. And these leaders, they see that behind them the anti-Semitic wave grows and grows; and when the masses once recognize the facts, that...

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Ilhan Omar
Jumat, 2026-06-05 21:40:58

reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used". In September 2019, Omar condemned Benjamin Netanyahu's...

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QAnon
Selasa, 2026-06-02 19:46:07

"garden-variety nonsense with racist and anti-Semitic undertones" and containing "striking anti-Semitic elements". A Jewish Telegraphic Agency article...

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Canaan (son of Ham)
Selasa, 2026-02-03 22:05:57

Northwest Semitic name for this region. The etymology is uncertain. One explanation is that it has an original meaning of "lowlands", from a Semitic root knʿ...

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Alû
Jumat, 2024-07-19 10:12:00

Stephen Herbert. H. C. Rawlinson Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia. Vol. 4 (Semitic). ed. Theophilus Pinches. London: British Museum, 1861–64, 1891....

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Palatalization (sound change)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 21:47:15

impression of a retracted pronunciation similar to /ʃ/. While in most Semitic languages, e.g. Aramaic, Hebrew, Ge'ez the Gimel represents a [ɡ], Arabic...

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Accusative case
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:45:04

Turkic languages, in Dravidian languages like Malayalam and Tamil, and in Semitic languages (such as Arabic). Some Balto-Finnic languages, such as Finnish...

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Western Neo-Aramaic
Kamis, 2026-05-14 01:40:24

become /k/. Its phonology is strikingly similar to Arabic both being sister Semitic languages. Western Neo-Aramaic has the following set of vowels: Square...

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Adon
Senin, 2025-05-26 11:54:00

similar to a Semitic word—adon (which means "lord"). Scholar Walter Burkert stated about the hypothetical deity "Adon" : "there is in Semitic tradition no...

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Astarte (disambiguation)
Jumat, 2026-03-27 15:43:38

Look up Astarte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Astarte is an ancient Semitic goddess. Astarte may also refer to: Astarte, an 1891 collection of erotic...

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Aleph (disambiguation)
Minggu, 2026-02-22 20:50:03

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Aleph is the first letter of many Semitic abjads (alphabets). Aleph may also refer to: ALEPH experiment (Apparatus...

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Q
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:27:45

pronounced /ˈkjuː/ , most commonly spelled cue, but also kew, kue, and que. The Semitic sound value of Qôp was /q/ (voiceless uvular stop), and the form of the...

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Anti-Jewish laws
Jumat, 2025-10-03 17:51:09

Anti-Jewish laws have been a common occurrence throughout the history of antisemitism and Jewish history. Examples of such laws include special Jewish...

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Habesha peoples
Selasa, 2026-06-02 22:34:50

Francis Breyer also believes the Egyptian demonym to be the source of the Semitic term. The first attestation of late Latin Abissensis is from the fifth...

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K-T-B
Jumat, 2026-03-06 22:57:36

(Hebrew: כ־ת־ב; Arabic: ك-ت-ب) is a triconsonantal root of a number of Semitic words, typically those having to do with writing. The words for "office"...

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Saleh (name)
Rabu, 2026-05-13 07:49:16

form of the Hebrew Shelah, Selah or Methuselah (Hebrew: שֶׁלַח), is a Semitic male name derivative. In Arabic it means "righteous" or "pious". Saleh...

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Wazir Beg
Minggu, 2026-03-15 15:59:02

Wazir Beg (1827–1885) was a Semitic scholar, linguist, religious writer, Presbyterian minister and controversialist. Wazir was born in Pune, Maharashtra...

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1969–1970 Harvard University anti-Vietnam War protests
Senin, 2026-01-19 22:16:41

leftist movements and beginning his turn towards conservatism. The Harvard Semitic Museum, now the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, housed the Center...

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Erik John Anonby
Selasa, 2026-02-03 05:22:42

in journals such as Science, Linguistics, Iranian Studies, Journal of Semitic Studies, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Journal of...

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Koine Greek grammar
Senin, 2025-07-14 13:48:06

ratio of καί to δέ at the beginning of sentences is higher, influenced by Semitic languages. τότε 'then' as a common narrative conjunction reflects Aramaic...

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Babylon
Jumat, 2026-06-05 08:02:25

the Semitic name was a loan-translation of the original Sumerian name. However, the "gate of god" interpretation is increasingly viewed as a Semitic folk...

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Alef (disambiguation)
Minggu, 2025-10-12 14:55:28

Alef or aleph is the first letter of the Semitic abjads. Alef may also refer to: Alef Poh-ji (born 1987), Thai football player Alef (footballer, born...

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Holocaust denial
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:38:04

make anti-Semitic arguments seem once again respectable in civilized discourse and even make it acceptable for governments to pursue anti-Semitic policies...

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Mater lectionis
Rabu, 2025-12-24 22:46:21

consonant letter that is used to indicate a vowel, primarily in the writing of Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac. The letters that do this in...

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Mehri language
Jumat, 2026-01-23 21:53:47

Kuwait. It is the most spoken language of the MSAL group, a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is one of six distinct languages within...

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Agag
Rabu, 2026-05-06 08:48:25

Agag (/ˈeɪɡæɡ/; Hebrew: אֲגַג, romanized: ʾĂḡāḡ) is a Northwest Semitic name or title applied to a biblical king. It has been suggested that "Agag" was...

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Adolf Stoecker
Senin, 2025-09-15 06:29:16

of the capitalist system under the guise of very nationalist and anti-Semitic message appealed to the Mittelstand, which was suffering very badly from...

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Canaanite shift
Jumat, 2025-02-21 05:49:44

which belong to the Northwest Semitic branch of the Semitic languages family. This sound change caused Proto-NW-Semitic *ā (long a) to turn into ō (long...

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Tiamat
Kamis, 2026-06-04 11:41:02

association. Tiamat also has been claimed to be cognate with the Northwest Semitic word tehom (Biblical Hebrew: תְּהוֹם, romanized: tǝhom, lit. 'deeps, abyss')...

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Mari, Syria
Minggu, 2026-05-10 11:57:34

𒈠𒌷𒆠, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; Arabic: تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria. Its remains form a tell 11 kilometres (6...

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Berbers
Selasa, 2026-05-26 04:56:46

with predominantly pastoral elements. For their part, the Phoenicians (Semitic-speaking Canaanites) came from perhaps the most advanced multicultural...

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Khuzdul
Selasa, 2026-04-14 12:43:16

Tolkien commented of the Dwarves that "their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic." Although a very limited vocabulary is known, Tolkien...

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Mahris
Rabu, 2026-01-21 10:26:58

their Mahri language, which is a Semitic language belonging to the eastern family within the group of South Semitic languages, and it is a language closely...

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John Huehnergard
Minggu, 2026-03-15 10:52:34

Huehnergard (born March 16, 1952) is a Canadian-American specialist in Semitic languages, notable for his work on categorization, etymology, and historical...

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Israelites
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:32:12

The Israelites, also known as the Children of Israel, were an ancient Semitic-speaking people who lived in Canaan during the Iron Age. They are associated...

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Karl Borromäus Alexander Sessa
Rabu, 2026-03-04 05:18:32

December 1813) was a Prussian physician and playwright, known for his anti-Semitic sentiments. Karl Borromäus Alexander Sessa was born in Breslau, Prussia...

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Eritrea
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:59:34

speak languages from the Afroasiatic family, either from the Ethiopian Semitic languages or Cushitic branches. In Eritrea, ethnic Tigrinyas make up about...

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Hadibu
Selasa, 2026-04-21 16:48:22

Socotra's two administrative districts. The Soqotri language, an unwritten Semitic language, is widely spoken. In 2008, stone tools used by early Homo erectus...

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Jeff Rense
Kamis, 2026-05-14 11:53:28

original on 2012-09-29. Retrieved 2012-12-08. "Rense Web Site Promotes Anti-Semitic View". Anti Defamation League. March 17, 2009. Retrieved February 17, 2015...

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Siltʼe people
Minggu, 2026-03-22 07:25:36

Central Ethiopia Regional State. Silt'e people speak the Siltʼe language, a Semitic language, which is closely related to the Harari language. Siltʼe denote...

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Nonconcatenative morphology
Kamis, 2025-12-18 07:44:16

"oxen" Nonconcatenative morphology is extremely well developed in the Semitic languages in which it forms the basis of virtually all higher-level word...

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Racial antisemitism
Minggu, 2026-05-31 03:10:49

19th century pseudoscience which was used to justify the belief that the Semitic peoples, including the Jews, were entirely different from the Aryan, or...

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History of the ancient Levant
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 07:34:19

Levant was home to many ancient Semitic-speaking peoples and kingdoms, and is considered by many to be the urheimat of Semitic languages. Anatomically modern...

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Preterite
Rabu, 2026-05-13 17:50:03

Conjugations with the word siin (be) were: The preterite was a common Semitic form, well attested in the Akkadian language, where the preterite almost...

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Malik (disambiguation)
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 21:53:04

Malik, malik, ملك, or ملكة in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Malik is a Semitic word meaning 'king'. Malik may also refer to: Malik (name), including a...

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Chaldea
Kamis, 2026-04-30 07:23:46

During a period of weakness in the East Semitic-speaking kingdom of Babylonia, new tribes of West Semitic-speaking migrants arrived in the region from...

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Rijal Alma language
Minggu, 2026-02-15 06:05:07

complicating the situation regarding where this speech variety belongs within Semitic. The speakers of Rijāl Almaʿ are a rather unique presence in Asir given...

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Baal Cycle
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:04:33

Baal as the god Hadad, the Northwest Semitic form of Adad. The stories are written in Ugaritic, a Northwest Semitic language, and written in a cuneiform...

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Taher (name)
Senin, 2026-05-25 18:51:43

"pure" or "virtuous". The origin of this name is Arabic. There are several Semitic variations that include connotations given in Africa, Asia, and Europe...

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Soqotrans
Rabu, 2026-05-06 23:28:58

Arabian languages which are closer to the Ethiopian Semitic languages than to Arabic (Central Semitic languages). Despite historical contacts with the Arabic...

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Ṯāʾ
Kamis, 2026-05-28 02:58:19

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Genitive case
Jumat, 2026-04-03 09:53:00

door for a house) The Semitic genitive should not be confused with the pronominal possessive suffixes that exist in all the Semitic languages e.g. Arabic...

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Steven Davidoff Solomon
Kamis, 2026-05-14 11:08:39

Solomon wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled "Don't Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students." Solomon's article referenced the fact that Berkeley law...

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Languages of Ethiopia
Kamis, 2026-03-12 02:44:11

Most people in the country speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches. The former includes the Oromo language, spoken by the Oromo,...

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Algerian Arabic
Kamis, 2026-05-28 05:35:59

Like other varieties of Maghrebi Arabic, Algerian Arabic has a mostly Semitic vocabulary. 20% of Algerian Arabic words are from Arabic and 34% of Algerian...

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Christo-Paganism
Jumat, 2026-05-15 23:04:10

Christian mysticism Christian views on magic Esoteric Christianity Gnosticism Semitic neopaganism Slavic Native Faith and Christianity "Do Pagans Believe in...

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Horn of Africa
Kamis, 2026-06-04 22:01:17

used in a more stricter sense that is reserved for the Cushitic and Ethio‑Semitic speaking peoples, who constitute the core historical and demographical...

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Jesus (name)
Jumat, 2026-05-22 20:27:18

the Semitic root y-š-ʕ (Hebrew: ישע), meaning "to deliver; to rescue." Likely originating in proto-Semitic (yṯ'), it appears in several Semitic personal...

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Hermann Möller
Selasa, 2024-05-28 08:13:00

work in favor of a genetic relationship between the Indo-European and Semitic language families and his version of the laryngeal theory. Möller grew...

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Michael S. Heiser
Minggu, 2026-05-24 17:26:57

Testament scholar and Christian author with training in ancient history, Semitic languages, and the Hebrew Bible from the University of Pennsylvania and...

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Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 02:44:33

after being sentenced to death. The slogan is widely regarded as anti-Semitic. The slogan was coined in the late 1980s during the First Intifada by Ahmed...

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Ronald L. Troxel
Rabu, 2026-05-13 05:21:57

a retired professor emeritus and Chair of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On May 27, 1973, Troxel...

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George Aaron Barton
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 07:55:28

June 1942) was a Canadian author, Episcopal clergyman, and professor of Semitic languages and the history of religion. Barton was born on 12 November 1859...

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Patrick W. Skehan
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 17:15:49

1909 in New York City – September 9, 1980) was an American Old Testament semitic scholar. Skehan received his B.A. from Fordham University (1929), and studied...

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Assyrians
Senin, 2026-06-01 01:57:18

Assyrian Empire. They speak varieties of Neo-Aramaic, a branch of the Semitic language family, and the majority adhere to Syriac Christianity. Some members...

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Barsamin
Rabu, 2021-09-22 14:02:46

god among the pre-Christian Armenians. He is probably derived from the Semitic god Baal Shamin. Jordan, Michael (1993). Encyclopedia of Gods. New York...

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Manat (goddess)
Selasa, 2026-04-21 12:11:52

goddesses of Mecca, she was also very possibly among the most ancient of the Semitic pantheon as well. Her now-lost major shrine was between Mecca and Medina...

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Maltese people
Jumat, 2026-05-22 11:47:02

Maltin) people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic with a substantial Romance superstratum...

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Anunnaki
Jumat, 2026-05-22 21:14:41

as the storm approaches. Later, when the flood comes, Ishtar (the East Semitic equivalent to Inanna) and the Anunnaki mourn over the destruction of humanity...

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Turoyo language
Rabu, 2026-04-29 05:17:01

the Framework of Phonological Correspondences in Comparison with Other Semitic Languages. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet. ISBN 9789155480585. Waltisberg...

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Mandaic language
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:01:31

attested in Late Antiquity, probably Mandaic. Neo-Mandaic preserves a Semitic "suffix" conjugation (or perfect) that is lost in other dialects. The phonology...

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Mesmes language
Rabu, 2026-04-08 00:04:18

Mesmes language is an extinct West Gurage language, one of the Ethiopian Semitic languages spoken in Ethiopia. There are still many people who claim the...

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Nick Bougas
Senin, 2026-05-11 03:18:19

enduring anti-Semitic images. Bernstein, Joseph (February 5, 2015). "The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image". BuzzFeed...

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Imperfect
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 23:43:11

onlar, they become -mı and -dı (which have an unrounded back vowel). Semitic languages, especially the ancient forms, do not make use of the imperfect...

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Antisemitism in the British Labour Party
Senin, 2026-06-01 01:45:58

anti-Semitic incidents in recent years risks lending force to allegations that elements of the Labour movement are institutionally anti-Semitic". During...

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Tunisian Arabic
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:43:04

Like other Maghrebi dialects, it has a vocabulary that is predominantly Semitic and Arabic with a Berber, Latin and possibly Neo-Punic substratum. Tunisian...

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Place names of Palestine
Senin, 2026-05-25 12:48:52

the region have Semitic roots, with only a few place names being of Latin origin, and hardly any of Greek or Turkish origins. The Semitic roots of the oldest...

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Svoboda (Ukraine)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 18:06:33

nationalism and protectionism. The party has been described as "deeply anti-Semitic", and "fascist", though others say the party is no longer overtly antisemitic...

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Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages
Senin, 2022-09-26 04:53:00

The Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages is a position at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. It was established in 1709 by Queen Anne as the...

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Inanna
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:26:57

across Mesopotamia. Adoration of Inanna/Ishtar was continued by the East Semitic-speaking peoples (Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians) who succeeded and...

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Theodore Henry Robinson
Senin, 2025-12-22 13:05:07

Robinson (1881–1964) was a British biblical scholar who became professor of Semitic languages at University College, Cardiff. Robinson was born in Edenbridge...

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Abraham Foxman
Senin, 2026-06-01 01:14:42

as anti-Semitic". In November 2003, Foxman said of Gibson, "I think he's infected, seriously infected, with some very, very serious anti-Semitic views."...

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Jo Ann Hackett
Selasa, 2025-12-23 07:25:37

Bible (Old Testament) and of Biblical Hebrew and other ancient Northwest Semitic languages such as Phoenician, Punic, and Aramaic. Hackett was born in Louisville...

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Kish civilization
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 07:41:46

sites of Abu Salabikh and Kish in central Mesopotamia into the early East Semitic era in Mesopotamia and the Levant. The term itself was coined by Ignace...

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Yazdânism
Senin, 2026-03-16 02:21:42

"predates Islam by millennia" which is in its character "Aryan" rather than "Semitic". Instead of suggesting that the Muslim Kurds are Yazdânis, Izady suggests...

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Suffix
Selasa, 2026-06-02 12:10:09

derivation and class-maintaining derivation. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, suffixes are called affirmatives, as they can alter the form...

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Nabataean Arabic
Senin, 2026-06-01 17:02:47

basic, unbound form. The definite article spread areally among the Central Semitic languages and it would seem that Proto-Arabic lacked any overt marking...

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Lawrence Mykytiuk
Selasa, 2026-03-10 09:03:30

University of Wisconsin–Madison, he earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Hebrew and Semitic studies (1988, 1998), and an M.A. in Library and Information Studies (1992)...

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Tigre language
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:33:24

symbols. Tigre (ትግሬ, Təgré), also known as Tigrayit (ትግራይት), is an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in the Horn of Africa, primarily by the Tigre people of...

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ʿApiru
Senin, 2026-05-11 16:48:01

and r, and in light of the well-established sound change from Northwest Semitic ʿ to Akkadian ḫ, the root of this term is proven to be ʿ-p-r. This root...

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Patrick Little (neo-Nazi)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 17:09:32

Newsweek. Retrieved December 21, 2024. Pink, Aiden (May 30, 2018). "Anti-Semitic Senate Candidate Patrick Little Now Polling At 0%". The Forward. Retrieved...

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Babylonian cuneiform numerals
Minggu, 2026-03-22 23:36:51

numerals of Semitic languages rather than Sumerian lexical numbers. However, the use of a special Sumerian sign for 60 (beside two Semitic signs for the...

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Beth
Rabu, 2025-05-21 01:27:12

dictionary. Beth may refer to: Bet (letter), or beth, the second letter of the Semitic abjads (writing systems) Hebrew word for "house", often used in the name...

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Old Hijazi Arabic
Selasa, 2026-05-19 15:40:27

sounds in the chart above are based on the constructed phonology of Proto-Semitic and the phonology of Modern Hejazi Arabic. Notes: The consonants ⟨ض⟩ and...

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Arabic grammar
Jumat, 2026-04-24 02:12:49

the Arabic language. Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities with the grammar of other Semitic languages. Classical Arabic and...

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New antisemitism
Selasa, 2026-06-02 16:56:40

of Israeli President Chaim Herzog, in which he argued that a "new anti-Semitic anti-Zionism" was emerging, distinguishing features of which were the equation...

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Tunic
Minggu, 2026-05-17 04:29:53

garments that covered wearers' waists. The term is likely borrowed from a Semitic word *kittan with metathesis. The word khiton (Ancient Greek: χῐτών) is...

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Carol II of Romania
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:24:59

electoral success. On 28 December 1937, Carol swore in the radical anti-Semitic poet Octavian Goga of the National Christian Party, which only won 9% of...

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Jesus the Magician
Kamis, 2026-02-12 14:53:47

historical Jesus was a magician who "sprang from a Galilean strain of Semitic paganism" (p. 68). The idea that Jesus was a magician did not originate...

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Ethiopians
Jumat, 2026-06-05 09:51:05

Ezana. There were three ethnolinguistic groups in the Kingdom of Aksum: Semitic, Cushitic, and Nilo-Saharan (ancestors of the modern-day Kunama and Nara)...

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Etymology of cannabis
Minggu, 2026-05-03 10:39:17

astonishing resemblance between the Semitic kanbos and the Scythian cannabis lead me to suppose that the Scythian word was of Semitic origin. These etymological...

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Palestinian Arabic
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:53:46

Palestinian Arabic originated in the heartland of the Semitic languages, it has kept many regular Semitic words. For this reason, it is simple to speculate...

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Evil Elmo
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:27:11

1080/13552600008413308. ISSN 1355-2600. Robbins, Christopher (June 28, 2012). "Yep: Anti-Semitic "Elmo" Ran Cambodian Porn Site, "Welcome To The Rape Camp"". Gothamist...

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Tigre people
Senin, 2026-03-23 07:43:17

eastern Sudan. The Tigre speak the Tigre language, which belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. They are not ethnically homogeneous;...

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Nabataean Aramaic
Senin, 2026-06-01 17:03:07

interrogative and indefinite pronouns are mn 'who' and mh 'what'. Like other Semitic languages, Nabataean Aramaic attests various (basic and derived) verb stems...

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Sextil Pușcariu
Rabu, 2026-02-04 22:12:37

Friedwagner; he forged a friendship with A. C. Cuza, the jurist and anti-Semitic doctrinaire. While in Czernowitz (Romanian name: Cernăuți), Pușcariu refused...

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Egyptian language
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:15:30

monoradical roots, in contrast to the Semitic preference for triradical roots. Egyptian is probably more conservative, and Semitic likely underwent later regularizations...

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Pharyngealization
Senin, 2026-05-11 08:46:21

transliterate the Semitic consonant ayin and which is equivalent to a reversed ⟨ʾ⟩, which itself transliterates the glottal Semitic consonants aleph and...

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Gad (deity)
Rabu, 2026-04-08 02:33:06

Gad was the name of the pan-Semitic god of fortune, usually depicted as a male but sometimes as a female, and is attested in ancient records of Aram and...

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Maiuma (festival)
Kamis, 2026-03-12 12:30:23

suggests that the Punic word my'ms is derived by word combination from the Semitic word for water and the Greek name of the spring festival, Μαιουμα(ς), 'Maiouma(s)'...

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Arabic Wikipedia
Minggu, 2026-05-24 23:22:50

It was the first Wikipedia in a Semitic language to exceed 100,000 articles on 25 May 2009, and also the first Semitic language to exceed 1 million articles...

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Kubaba (goddess)
Senin, 2025-05-26 05:01:23

ku-ba-ba-at. Volkert Haas suggested the morpheme t can be identified as a Semitic feminine suffix. In the Ugaritic alphabetic script, Kubaba's name was written...

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Le Republicain de Constantine
Selasa, 2025-05-27 06:32:44

French Algeria. Morinaud and his supporters in the Radical Party used anti-Semitic propaganda to curry support against the conservative Opportunist Republicans...

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Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
Rabu, 2026-03-25 01:54:12

The Lidzbarski Gold Medal for Semitic Philology is awarded annually by the German Oriental Society for work in Semitic studies and named in after Mark...

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Ihram
Senin, 2026-03-23 15:26:24

Ihram (Arabic: إِحْرَام, romanized: iḥrām, from the Semitic root Ḥ-R-M) is a sacred state which a Muslim must enter to perform the Ḥajj (major pilgrimage)...

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Númenor
Rabu, 2026-06-03 10:00:19

Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, and Carthage. Its language, Adûnaic, was modelled on Semitic languages. Tolkien chose to make the names of its months reflect those...

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Sahar (name)
Minggu, 2026-04-26 19:11:11

from Semitic languages, they are nonetheless etymologically unrelated. In Arabic, the name means "just before dawn", coming from a common Semitic root...

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List of British fascist parties
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 21:29:38

Daily Mail newspaper. The Militant Christian Patriots were a strongly anti-Semitic propaganda organisation that was formed around 1935 and briefly held a...

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Zionist as a pejorative
Kamis, 2026-05-14 08:37:27

March 2023, doi:10.1093/oed/1070882441, retrieved 29 August 2025 "Anti-Semitic themes found in mainstream British circles". The Jerusalem Post. 12 November...

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Hyksos
Minggu, 2026-05-31 20:26:41

the term Hyksos is used ethnically to designate people of probable West Semitic, Levantine origin. While Manetho portrayed the Hyksos as invaders and oppressors...

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Phaistos Disc decipherment claims
Rabu, 2026-04-22 04:28:05

syllabic-ideographic writing);[citation needed] K. Aartun (1992) (interpretation as a Semitic language, syllabic writing); side A first; reading outwards; C.H. Gordon;[citation...

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Racism in the United States
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 10:56:21

overtly anti-Semitic sermons and, from 1936, he began the publication of a newspaper, Social Justice, in which he printed anti-Semitic accusations such...

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Jules Guérin
Rabu, 2026-06-03 10:27:54

Devos, Édouard Duboc and Max Régis. The Ligue was involved in many anti-Semitic and anti-Dreyfus protests during the Dreyfus Affair. After failing to gain...

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David Frank Graf
Minggu, 2026-04-19 02:44:26

emphasis over the years. Graf's studies in Semitic epigraphy have contributed to the study of ancient Semitic-speaking civilizations, their languages, cultures...

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Freedom for Humanity
Jumat, 2026-05-01 19:55:04

to have the mural removed; "The images of the bankers perpetuate anti-Semitic propaganda about conspiratorial Jewish domination of financial and political...

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Hobyot
Senin, 2026-04-13 20:42:04

languages (MSAL), a group of South Semitic languages spoken in the southern Arabian Peninsula. A severely-endangered Semitic language on the verge of extinction...

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Derived stem
Selasa, 2026-05-19 16:53:56

(also called D stems) are a morphological feature of verbs common to the Semitic languages. These derived verb stems are sometimes called augmentations...

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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Rabu, 2026-06-03 07:16:51

can make anti-Semitic claims ... and play an important, if unwitting, part in preparing the ground for the future emergence of anti-Semitic movement." Noa...

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Z
Kamis, 2026-05-21 20:05:01

common. In Esperanto the name of the letter Z is pronounced /zo/. The Semitic symbol was the seventh letter, named zayin, which meant "weapon" or "sword"...

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Giovanni Garbini
Senin, 2026-04-20 14:19:31

then 29, taught Garbini the history of ancient Semitic civilizations, the study of Biblical Hebrew, Semitic linguistic comparison, and the Syriac language...

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Justus Olshausen
Selasa, 2026-05-12 17:42:54

December 1882) was a German orientalist known for his contributions to Semitic and Iranian philology. Olshausen was born in Hohenfelde, and studied at...

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Moab
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 03:22:06

Mo'ab means "from the father", since ab in Hebrew and Arabic and other Semitic languages means "father". He writes that as a result of the "immodesty"...

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Lemba people
Jumat, 2026-06-05 19:36:20

and scholarly attention about the Lemba's common partial descent from Semitic peoples of West Asia. Genetic Y-DNA analyses have established a paternal...

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Kidane
Senin, 2026-01-12 02:57:51

Kidane (Amharic: ኪዳነ), is a word in various Ethiopian Semitic languages that translates to covenant or vow. It is also a common male name in Ethiopia...

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Japhetites
Kamis, 2025-11-20 14:05:53

large-scale groupings, corresponding to the three classical continents: the Semitic peoples of Asia, the Hamitic peoples of Africa, and the Japhetic peoples...

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Borussia Dortmund
Selasa, 2026-05-26 07:52:11

included far‑right hooligan factions (notably the Borussenfront), and anti‑Semitic songs and racist chants were commonplace. From the early 2000s, a more...

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Alexander Murray (linguist)
Kamis, 2025-08-21 01:19:50

a Scottish minister, philologist, linguist and professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages at Edinburgh University (1812). Murray was born on 22 October...

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Phoenicia
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 15:48:45

The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic people who inhabited city-states in Canaan along the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily in...

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Los Lunas Decalogue Stone
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:01:10

some claim the inscription is Pre-Columbian, and therefore proof of early Semitic contact with the Americas. Standard archeological evidence contradicts...

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Proto-religion
Senin, 2022-11-07 13:57:29

system adhered to by the Proto-Indo-Europeans Proto-Semitic religion, polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples This disambiguation page lists articles...

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Meyers Leonard
Rabu, 2026-06-03 10:42:50

Leonard will be away from team indefinitely while NBA probes use of anti-Semitic slur". ESPN.com. Retrieved March 10, 2021. Andrews, Malika (March 11, 2021)...

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Arameans
Selasa, 2026-05-05 08:38:53

romanized: ārāmāyē, Syriac pronunciation: [ʔɑːrɑːˈmɑːje]), were a tribal Semitic people in the ancient Near East, first documented in historical sources...

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El Shaddai
Selasa, 2026-06-02 15:47:05

of Shadé or Shada". Another theory is that Shaddai is a derivation of a Semitic root that appears in the Akkadian language shadû ("mountain") and shaddāʾû...

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Aleppo
Selasa, 2026-06-02 20:15:58

region. The name Ḥalab is believed to originate from a Semitic root, possibly the Proto-Semitic root ḥlb, meaning "to milk" or "milk". This connection...

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Lebanese Arabic
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:45:07

7th century AD, which gradually supplanted various indigenous Northwest Semitic languages to become the regional lingua franca. As a result of this prolonged...

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Adon (disambiguation)
Jumat, 2025-01-24 11:11:10

Adon (אדון) is the Northwest Semitic for lord, mostly used of deities. Adon may also refer to: Adon, Loiret, France Adon P. Brown (1873–1942), American...

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Nostratic languages
Jumat, 2026-06-05 04:46:08

Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Samoyed, Turkish, Mongolian, Manchu, Yukaghir, Eskimo, Semitic, and Hamitic languages, with the door left open to the eventual inclusion...

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Bassareus
Senin, 2026-01-12 13:04:38

Dionysus Bassareus. Astour, Michael C. (1964). "Greek Names in the Semitic World and Semitic Names in the Greek World". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 23...

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God
Minggu, 2026-05-03 12:36:15

El, which also as a proper noun referred to the chief deity in ancient Semitic religions. In the Hebrew Bible, God is also given a personal name, Yahweh...

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Ziggurat
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:36:37

ziqqurratum, D-stem of zaqārum 'to protrude, to build high', cognate with other Semitic languages like Hebrew zaqar (זָקַר) 'protrude') is a type of massive structure...

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Geoffrey Khan
Kamis, 2026-02-19 01:23:46

Khan FBA (born 1 February 1958) is a British linguist and philologist of Semitic languages. He has held the post of Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University...

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Circle symbol
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 17:14:01

o, Latin alphabet Ο or ο, Greek alphabet О or о, Cyrillic alphabet 𐤏, Semitic/Phoenician letter ayin, the ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Cyrillic etc...

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Henry Ford
Kamis, 2026-06-04 10:32:33

Barkun observed: "That Cameron would have continued to publish such anti-Semitic material without Ford's explicit instructions seemed unthinkable to those...

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Ideology of Hezbollah
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:44:55

against the Jews as a religion nor as a race" and that it is "not anti-Semitic in its overall orientation." Commenting on a recent project for rebuilding...

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Voltaire
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 16:09:49

people throughout his life concluded that he was anti-biblical, not anti-semitic. His remarks on the Jews and their "superstitions" were essentially no...

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Cush (Bible)
Jumat, 2026-02-13 13:34:32

geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1048. David M. Goldenberg (2003)...

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Judeo-Tat
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:30:06

originated in the same region of the Persian Empire. Judeo-Tat features Semitic elements in all linguistic levels of the language. Uniquely, Judeo-Tat...

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Writing systems of pre-Islamic Arabia
Rabu, 2026-05-27 03:47:21

Egyptian Semitic East Semitic West Semitic Ethio-Semitic Modern South Arabian Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Canaanite Aramaic South Semitic Ancient...

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Balsam
Kamis, 2026-06-04 23:48:33

Balsam (from Latin: balsamum "gum of the balsam tree", ultimately from a Semitic source such as Hebrew: בֹּשֶׂם, romanized: bośem, lit. 'spice, perfume')...

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Bayt
Senin, 2025-06-02 05:30:51

Hebrew: בית, both meaning 'house'; there are similar words in various Semitic languages), also spelled bayit, bayyit, bait, beit, beth, bet, etc., may...

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Ugarit
Minggu, 2026-05-31 21:34:03

discovered in 1928. The texts were written in a previously unknown Northwest Semitic tongue—the Ugaritic language. Archaeological excavations of Ugarit show...

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History of the Chouf region
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:40:22

much of Lebanon, the Chouf was inhabited by the Phoenicians, an ancient Semitic civilization known for their seafaring skills and trade. However, Evidence...

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Ḏāl
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:11:30

‹ The template Infobox Semitic letter is being considered for merging. › ‹ The template Infobox grapheme is being considered for merging. › ‹ The template...

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Pre-Indo-European languages
Minggu, 2026-03-08 00:59:21

Asia (including Iran and Anatolia), the pre-Indo-European, Caucasian, Semitic languages, Dravidian and language isolates have survived to the present...

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Francis Brown (theologian)
Sabtu, 2025-03-22 17:59:22

Francis Brown (December 26, 1849 – October 15, 1916) was an American Semitic scholar born in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was the son of Samuel Gilman...

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8
Selasa, 2026-05-26 10:32:50

is mostly used to refer to eight siblings delivered in one birth. The Semitic numeral is based on a root *θmn-, whence Akkadian smn-, Arabic ṯmn-, Hebrew...

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Ancient Carthage
Rabu, 2026-06-03 02:49:24

(/ˈkɑːrθɪdʒ/ KAR-thij; Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit. 'New City') was an ancient Semitic civilization based in North Africa. It grew from small settlement in present-day...

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Middle East
Jumat, 2026-05-29 06:31:08

neighbouring Middle Eastern non-Arab countries. It is a member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Several Modern South Arabian languages...

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Samaritans
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 04:15:21

cognate with the Biblical Hebrew term Šomerim, and both terms reflect a Semitic root שמר, which means "to watch" or "to guard". Historically, Samaritans...

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Umm
Minggu, 2025-11-23 08:02:18

Arabic. It is a common Arabic feminine given name and generic prefix for Semitic place names. It may refer to: Ain Umm Sujoor, an archaeological site Umm...

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Haddad
Minggu, 2026-05-24 09:25:22

commonly used in the Levant and Algeria. Hadad is the name of an ancient Semitic storm god. Hadodo (Syriac: ܚܕܕܐ) is an Assyrian family name, which has...

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Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Senin, 2026-03-30 03:29:42

English Publication details Former names Hebraica, American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures History 1884–present Publisher University of...

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Bronze Age
Selasa, 2026-06-02 12:18:50

province of the Middle Assyrian Empire. The Israelites were an ancient Semitic-speaking people of the Ancient Near East who inhabited part of Canaan during...

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Antisemitism in Russia
Minggu, 2026-03-08 18:01:15

"Russian March" in 2012 in Moscow. An anti-Semitic poster against the background of flags with a nationalist and neopagan symbol "Kolovrat". The poster...

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Religious views of Adolf Hitler
Selasa, 2026-06-02 21:27:23

arrived in Vienna as a young man, Hitler claimed, he was not yet anti-Semitic: "In the Jew I still saw only a man who was of a different religion, and...

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Jews
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:26:52

origin of the Jews lie in the Israelites, a confederation of Iron Age Semitic-speaking tribes that inhabited a part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic...

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Dental ejective fricative
Jumat, 2026-02-27 21:52:21

Arabian languages and is also reconstructed for the hypothetical Proto-Semitic language. Index of phonetics articles Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude (1997)...

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Russell Weiner
Rabu, 2026-05-13 10:37:46

election, some election posters depicting him were vandalized in an anti-Semitic manner. In 2009, Weiner donated $25,000 to the California gubernatorial...

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Antisemitism in Poland
Rabu, 2026-04-15 16:58:11

anti-Semitic tradition – DW – 04/22/2019". dw.com. Retrieved 2023-08-02. Paton, Callum (2019-04-23). "Town Marks Easter With 'Idiotic' anti-Semitic Effigy"...

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Chaldean people
Jumat, 2026-04-03 05:42:21

Chaldean people may refer to: Ancient Chaldeans, ancient Semitic people in southern Mesopotamia Modern Chaldeans, modern self-identification of Chaldean...

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Barcids
Rabu, 2026-02-18 01:18:03

historians (cf. "Ramesside" and "Abbasid"); the actual byname was the Northwest Semitic Barca or Barcas, which means lightning (He ברק). See برق, barq in Arabic...

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Arabic definite article
Minggu, 2026-05-31 21:19:57

While the Proto-Semitic language did not have any articles, the most likely theory is that the article al- comes from the same proto-Semitic source as the...

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Hadramautic language
Jumat, 2026-03-20 19:13:17

easternmost of the four known languages of the Old South Arabian subgroup of the Semitic languages. It was used in the Kingdom of Hadhramaut and also the area round...

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Richard Dumbrill (musicologist)
Selasa, 2026-03-10 09:49:45

edu/112552291/The_Birth_of_Music_Theory Semitic Music Theory (2600-500 BC) https://www.academia.edu/38432560/Semitic_Music_Theory_2600_500_BC_ Dumbrill, Richard...

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Tadmor
Senin, 2025-10-13 22:47:10

Tadmor or Tadmur is an ancient Semitic name, and may refer to Tadmor, the native name of the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria Tadmor, the native name of...

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Addis Ababa
Minggu, 2026-05-31 21:14:36

centuries before the city's foundation. The Gafat spoke a South Ethio-Semitic language distinct from both Amharic and Oromo, and by the 16th century...

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Rebecca (given name)
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 19:31:48

Rebecca, wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau. The name comes from the Semitic root ר-ב-ק (r-b-q), meaning "to tie firmly"; Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament...

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Sabians
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 12:32:35

those are the Sabians of Harran, adherents of a poorly understood ancient Semitic religion centered in the upper Mesopotamian city of Harran, who were described...

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El
Minggu, 2025-12-21 08:58:58

music artist El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American politician El (deity), Semitic word for "god" and proper name of certain deities Party of the European...

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Aluf
Kamis, 2026-02-19 00:11:56

55:13, where it is used as a general term for teacher. It comes from a Semitic root meaning "thousand," making an ’allup̄ the one who commands a thousand...

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Mem (disambiguation)
Senin, 2026-02-09 05:50:50

Look up mềm, me·m, מם, or מ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mem is a Semitic letter. Mem or MEM may also refer to: Ministry of Emergency Management...

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Benedikt Isserlin
Sabtu, 2025-11-01 02:00:55

(1916 – 2005) was a scholar of Hebrew who was Head of the Department of Semitic Studies at the University of Leeds. Isserlin was born in Munich in 1916...

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Name of Italy
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 13:45:59

contested, suggests that Italy derives from "Atalu", an Akkadian word (Semitic language like Phoenician) reconstructed by the scholar Giovanni Semerano...

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God of Israel
Kamis, 2026-01-01 20:45:53

God of Israel may refer to: Yahweh, an ancient Semitic deity who was worshipped in ancient Israel and Judah God in Judaism, the Jewish conception of God...

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Moses
Senin, 2026-06-01 11:41:44

[מְשִׁיתִֽהוּ, mǝšīṯīhū] of the water'." This explanation links it to the Semitic root משׁה, m-š-h, meaning "to draw out". The eleventh-century Tosafist...

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J
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:41:32

Cyrillic alphabet for the same purpose. The Maltese language, though a Semitic language, has been deeply influenced by the Romance languages (especially...

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Arabic alphabet
Rabu, 2026-06-03 03:12:04

Proto-Semitic fricatives *š (represented by šin 𐡔 in Aramaic) and *s (represented by samek 𐡎‎ in Aramaic) had merged into Arabic s س, while Proto-Semitic...

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Eustace Mullins
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 16:27:25

noxious antiSemitic conspiracist, Eustace Mullins.' (p.122) 'Spotlight has published the commentaries of Eustace Mullins, a notorious antiSemitic writer....

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Dadanitic
Jumat, 2026-02-20 13:38:37

category, more work is required to establish its correct position in the Semitic family. Dadanitic exhibits a few forms which seem to have been lost at...

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Minoan language
Rabu, 2026-04-08 04:56:10

same script. It has been compared inconclusively to the Indo-European, Semitic and Tyrsenian language families. It may be a language isolate. From the...

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Inflected preposition
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 11:41:52

forms are given in parentheses. Inflected prepositions are found in many Semitic languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic and Amharic....

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Lists of deities by cultural sphere
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 10:08:05

the Babylonian gods) Kassite deities Sumerian deities Ugaritic deities Semitic deities Canaanite deities Elohim in Abrahamic religions Pre-Islamic Arabian...

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Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Minggu, 2026-05-17 08:55:18

career as a scholar and part-time lecturer in Middle Eastern studies and Semitic languages. Prince Mikasa married Yuriko Takagi in 1941, and they had five...

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Mandaic alphabet
Rabu, 2025-09-17 07:04:50

after the first letters of the alphabet. Rather than the traditional Semitic letter names (aleph, beth, gimel), they are known as a, ba, ga and so on...

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Western Aramaic languages
Minggu, 2026-04-12 05:32:08

ISBN 978-3-447-05787-5. Arnold, Werner (2012). "Western Neo-Aramaic". The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook. Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter...

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Classical Syriac Wikipedia
Rabu, 2026-06-03 18:10:47

63 articles per year. The Wikipedia is currently 7th out of 9 different Semitic language-Wikipedias, leading over the Tigrinya language, which itself leads...

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Hattians
Senin, 2026-03-23 20:56:50

Turkey). They spoke a distinctive Hattian language, which was neither Semitic nor Indo-European. Hattians are attested by archeological records from...

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List of modern pagan movements
Selasa, 2026-06-02 10:38:13

традиционной веры чувашей "Тура") (1995) Church of the Guanche People Canaanism Semitic neopaganism Kemetism Kemetic Orthodoxy Kemetic reform Ausar Auset Society...

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Mesha Stele
Senin, 2026-06-01 07:01:47

the major evidence for the Moabite language, and is a "corner-stone of Semitic epigraphy", and history. The stele, whose story parallels, with some differences...

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Mesqan language
Rabu, 2026-04-08 00:03:26

people in the Gurage Zone of Ethiopia. It belongs to the family's Ethiopian Semitic branch. Sounds /p, pʼ, v, sʼ/ occur in loanwords, mainly from Amharic....

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Neo-Mandaic
Kamis, 2026-05-14 01:35:44

differences between the two. Neo-Mandaic is a dialect of Aramaic, a Northwest Semitic language that was formerly spoken throughout the Middle East. Already in...

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Christopher Rollston
Kamis, 2026-03-26 07:49:16

Hebrew Bible, Greek New Testament, Old Testament Apocrypha, Northwest Semitic literature, epigraphy, and paleography. Rollston holds an MA and PhD from...

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Wild 'n Out
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 22:20:14

Anti-Semitic Podcast Remarks". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 15, 2020. ""I feel ashamed": Nick Cannon apologizes for "anti-Semitic" comments"...

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Chaim Menachem Rabin
Senin, 2025-11-10 10:16:47

was a German, then British, and finally Israeli professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages. Chaim Rabin was born in Giessen, Germany, 22 November 1915,...

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Ephraim Isaac
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 17:22:26

scholar of ancient Ethiopian Semitic languages and of African and Ethiopian civilizations. He founded the Institute of Semitic Studies, which he directs...

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Racism in Italy
Kamis, 2026-02-05 09:54:12

Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime (1922–1943) were enacted a set of anti-Semitic laws, as well as laws prohibiting internal migration under certain circumstances...

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Kadesh
Rabu, 2025-12-24 20:02:44

Qedesh, Qetesh, Kadesh, Kedesh, Kadeš and Qades come from the common Semitic root "Q-D-Š", which means "sacred." Kadesh and variations may refer to:...

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Conspiracy theory
Kamis, 2026-05-28 19:43:48

Nefes, Türkay S (2013). "Political parties' perceptions and uses of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in Turkey". The Sociological Review. 61 (2): 247–264...

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AB
Selasa, 2026-03-31 08:08:58

similar to AG, Ltd or Inc Ab (cuneiform), a written syllable Ab (Semitic), a Semitic word for "father" ab, a Welsh patronymic Ap (water), Vedic Sanskti...

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Zarb
Selasa, 2026-05-05 05:54:39

Zarb may refer to: a common Maltese surname. Zarb is a Semitic name, and is phonetically similar to other names in Middle Eastern countries such as the...

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Enki
Senin, 2026-05-25 01:10:30

fully assimilated to Ea, a god whose name is of unknown, but possibly semitic origin. They were already syncretized with each other in parts of Babylonia...

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Anat (disambiguation)
Minggu, 2026-03-08 16:06:11

Anat is a Semitic goddess and a Hebrew female given name. ANAT or Anat may refer to: Anat Biletzki (born 1952), Israeli philosophy professor Anat Brunstein...

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38th century BC
Selasa, 2025-12-09 10:12:57

(2009). "Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East". Proceedings of the Royal...

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Maltralian
Kamis, 2026-06-04 05:39:36

('congratulations') is not used but nifraħlek or nixtieqlek ir-risq are. However, these Semitic expressions are still present in Standard Maltese. For futbol 'football'...

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