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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
Kamis, 2026-08-06 16:46:59

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
Selasa, 2026-07-28 21:28:02

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 people
Jumat, 2026-07-17 19:42:27

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 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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Ancient Semitic religion
Jumat, 2026-06-19 03:57:37

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
Senin, 2026-07-13 00:24:40

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

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Antisemitism
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 10:10:52

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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Semitic root
Kamis, 2026-07-16 16:09:05

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-speaking peoples
Jumat, 2026-07-24 23:30:14

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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West Semitic languages
Jumat, 2026-07-17 22:37:38

The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of Semitic languages, the other being the long-extinct East Semitic languages division. The...

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Central Semitic languages
Senin, 2026-07-27 02:14:44

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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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
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 10:10:39

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
Senin, 2026-07-27 02:16:57

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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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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South Semitic languages
Kamis, 2026-06-11 12:23:55

South Semitic is a putative branch of the Semitic languages, which form a branch of the larger Afroasiatic language family, found in (North and East)...

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Abrahamic religions
Senin, 2026-07-27 18:53:39

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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Arabic
Rabu, 2026-08-05 20:41:37

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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Modern South Arabian
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 17:50:59

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 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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Abjad
Jumat, 2026-08-07 05:34:54

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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Phoenician alphabet
Minggu, 2026-07-26 22:35:24

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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Semitic romanization
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 16:46:59

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

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Yahweh
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:05:54

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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Atlantic (Semitic) languages
Selasa, 2026-07-28 02:26:00

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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Ab (Semitic)
Senin, 2026-06-08 22:03:34

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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Akkadian language
Selasa, 2026-08-04 23:16:40

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

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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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Proto-Sinaitic script
Minggu, 2026-07-05 02:13:48

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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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

The South Semitic scripts are a cluster of alphabets that had derived from the Proto-Sinaitic script by the 10th century BC. The family has two main branches:...

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Indo-Semitic languages
Selasa, 2026-06-23 08:03:08

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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Proto-Afroasiatic language
Rabu, 2026-07-22 03:47:44

Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the hypothetical proto-language from which all...

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History of the alphabet
Rabu, 2026-08-05 21:51:32

have been dated back to 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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Hebrew language
Minggu, 2026-08-09 09:15:01

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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Maltese language
Rabu, 2026-08-05 05:47:55

or Lingwa Maltija) is a Central Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic. It is the only Semitic language officially written in the...

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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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Comparative Semitics
Selasa, 2026-06-23 01:00:52

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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List of languages by number of native speakers
Selasa, 2026-07-28 07:40:05

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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Akkadian Empire
Senin, 2026-07-27 21:18:07

/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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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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Amharic
Jumat, 2026-07-17 10:51:05

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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List of languages by total number of speakers
Minggu, 2026-08-09 06:19:00

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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Baal
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 16:05:15

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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Aramaic
Jumat, 2026-08-07 10:03:56

Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai,...

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Siculo-Arabic
Minggu, 2026-06-28 01:08:45

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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Canaanite religion
Senin, 2026-07-20 19:39:48

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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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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Stereotypes of Jews
Selasa, 2026-08-04 14:20:18

representations of Jews, often caricatured, prejudiced and sometimes of an anti-semitic nature. Reproduced common objects, phrases, and traditions are used to...

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El (deity)
Rabu, 2026-07-29 15:33:15

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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Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions
Selasa, 2026-06-09 01:47:08

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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Canaanite languages
Minggu, 2026-07-26 18:43:31

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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Geers's law
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 23:20:48

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

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Malik
Jumat, 2026-07-31 15:35:46

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

Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic fāʾ ف, Aramaic pē 𐡐, Hebrew pē פ, Phoenician pē 𐤐, and Syriac pē ܦ. (in abjadi...

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Biblical Hebrew
Jumat, 2026-07-10 08:25:37

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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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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Negus
Kamis, 2026-07-02 05:06:03

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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Asherah
Jumat, 2026-08-07 01:27:29

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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2018 Berlin antisemitic attack
Rabu, 2026-06-17 17:22:24

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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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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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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Tigrayans
Rabu, 2026-07-08 08:02:22

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

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Amhara people
Minggu, 2026-08-09 01:35:01

(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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Tigrinya language
Rabu, 2026-07-15 05:21:19

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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As-salamu alaykum
Minggu, 2026-07-26 08:04:49

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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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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D
Jumat, 2026-06-12 18:15:10

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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Journal of Semitic Studies
Senin, 2026-07-27 06:17:52

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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Modern Hebrew
Minggu, 2026-07-05 05:35:52

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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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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Joseph Stalin
Minggu, 2026-08-09 04:48:33

these years, the country experienced another major famine and an anti-semitic campaign peaking in the doctors' plot. Stalin died in 1953 and was eventually...

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Shin (letter)
Minggu, 2026-08-09 06:10:34

Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first and penultimate letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician šīn 𐤔, Hebrew šīn ש, Aramaic šīn 𐡔, Syriac...

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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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Syria
Rabu, 2026-08-05 23:33:51

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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Aleph
Jumat, 2026-07-03 06:36:49

(also spelled alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀‎, Hebrew ʾālef א, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀‎...

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Punic language
Selasa, 2026-07-21 11:56:05

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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Š-L-M
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 20:01:08

Š-L-M is a triconsonantal root of many Semitic words (many of which are used as names). The root meaning translates to "whole, safe, intact, unharmed...

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Soqotri language
Kamis, 2026-06-18 02:49:51

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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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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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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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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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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Philosemitism
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 10:23:52

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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Anti-Zionist purge in the Polish Army
Kamis, 2026-07-02 07:31:59

The anti-Zionist purge in the Polish Army was the removal of soldiers of whom supported Zionism from the Polish People's Army, carried out in 1968 following...

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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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Ethiopia
Minggu, 2026-08-09 02:06:34

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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Malik (name)
Minggu, 2026-08-02 02:04:29

many other forms in most of the Semitic languages stem from a common Proto-Semitic root. Unrelated to the use in Semitic languages, Malik is also a common...

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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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Aphrodite
Senin, 2026-06-22 08:43:46

been derived from 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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List of religions and spiritual traditions
Rabu, 2026-08-05 06:48:27

Scandinavian heathenry Hellenism Hetanism Italo-Roman neopaganism Kemetism Semitic neopaganism Rodnovery Uralic neopaganism Estonian neopaganism Suomenusko...

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M
Senin, 2026-08-03 11:05:13

"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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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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Babylonia
Minggu, 2026-07-19 21:03:08

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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Mel Gibson
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:34:50

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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Self-hating Jew
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 01:18:35

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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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
Senin, 2026-06-29 10:09:42

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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Harari people
Kamis, 2026-07-09 10:47:29

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

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Eblaite language
Senin, 2026-06-08 06:20:58

also known as Eblan by 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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Phoenician language
Selasa, 2026-07-21 11:41:10

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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Criterion of contextual credibility
Senin, 2026-07-20 10:16:35

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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Bronze Age
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 16:06:32

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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Roald Dahl
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 13:07:24

make readers "violently anti-Israeli", at the time saying, "I am not anti-Semitic. I am anti-Israel." In 1990, Dahl spoke again on the Lebanon invasion,...

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Zayin
Kamis, 2026-06-11 10:52:39

(also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician zayn 𐤆, Hebrew zayīn ז, Aramaic zain 𐡆,...

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Weaponization of antisemitism
Minggu, 2026-08-09 01:42:54

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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Canaan
Selasa, 2026-07-28 07:38:02

Canaan was an ancient Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant during the late 2nd millennium BC. Canaan had significant geopolitical...

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Indo-European languages
Minggu, 2026-08-09 05:28:08

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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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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Dilmun
Minggu, 2026-08-02 09:21:22

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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Sumer
Kamis, 2026-07-23 21:58:27

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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Papaver umbonatum
Senin, 2026-07-27 01:14:20

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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Mem
Selasa, 2026-06-09 01:42:34

Mem (also spelled Meem, Meme, or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew mēm מ, Aramaic mem 𐡌, Syriac mīm ܡ, Arabic mīm...

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Antisemitism in Europe
Jumat, 2026-08-07 14:34:23

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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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Minggu, 2026-08-02 04:19:55

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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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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Brahmi script
Rabu, 2026-07-29 00:56:29

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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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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Sabaic
Jumat, 2026-07-31 09:33:17

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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Allah
Jumat, 2026-07-31 22:50:13

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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Adnan (name)
Jumat, 2026-06-26 21:10:07

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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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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Religions of the ancient Near East
Senin, 2026-07-13 06:04:11

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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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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Moabite language
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 19:30:06

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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History of antisemitism in the United States
Kamis, 2026-07-30 13:13:26

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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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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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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Al-Lat
Minggu, 2026-08-09 05:34:07

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

(corresponding to the 15th letter Phoenician letter Samekh). Based on Semitic linguistics, Samekh has no surviving descendant in the Arabic alphabet...

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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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Rothschild family
Jumat, 2026-08-07 23:25:23

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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Europe
Kamis, 2026-08-06 15:50:09

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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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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Happy Merchant
Senin, 2026-08-03 12:37:36

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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Sebat Bet Gurage language
Minggu, 2026-07-26 09:18:33

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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Berbers
Selasa, 2026-08-04 21:41:31

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

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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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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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Aziz
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 12:45:08

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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Q
Kamis, 2026-08-06 02:06:06

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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Amorites
Senin, 2026-08-03 08:47:01

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

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Maghrebi Arabic
Senin, 2026-06-29 05:13:54

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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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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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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Z
Minggu, 2026-07-05 01:17:18

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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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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Arabs
Senin, 2026-07-27 06:36:47

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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Late Bronze Age collapse
Senin, 2026-08-03 22:35:58

(see Etymology of Syria). The East Semitic-speaking polities of Ebla and the Akkadian Empire, the Northwest Semitic-speaking Amorites ("Amurru"), and the...

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Classical Arabic
Minggu, 2026-06-28 01:06:34

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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Lahmu
Senin, 2026-07-06 01:56:29

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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Geʽez script
Jumat, 2026-07-31 19:35:41

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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Yodh
Minggu, 2026-08-09 07:44:20

Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician yōd 𐤉, Hebrew yod י, Aramaic yod 𐡉, Syriac yōḏ...

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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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Deir Alla inscription
Minggu, 2026-07-05 15:32:17

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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Isogloss
Selasa, 2026-07-07 17:50:53

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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Jewish magic
Rabu, 2026-08-05 17:05:49

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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Tehom
Rabu, 2026-06-17 20:25:37

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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Canaanite shift
Selasa, 2026-06-23 00:11:38

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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Teth
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:51:07

Teth, also written as Ṭēth or Tet, is the ninth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ṭēt 𐤈, Hebrew ṭēṯ ט, Aramaic ṭēṯ 𐡈, Syriac ṭēṯ ܛ...

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Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Selasa, 2026-08-04 20:41:30

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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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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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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Salim (name)
Senin, 2026-06-22 04:54:07

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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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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Tigrinya people
Rabu, 2026-08-05 12:40:22

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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Samekh
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 20:55:26

the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵ ס, Aramaic samek 𐡎, and Syriac semkaṯ ܣ. Samekh is the only letter of the Semitic abjad...

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

Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew lāmeḏ ל, Aramaic lāmaḏ 𐡋, Syriac lāmaḏ ܠ, Arabic lām ل, and Phoenician...

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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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Ethnic groups in the Middle East
Kamis, 2026-06-18 07:57:18

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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Gurage people
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 00:31:52

Gurage (/ɡʊəˈrɑːɡeɪ/, Gurage: ጉራጌ) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group inhabiting Ethiopia. They inhabit the Gurage Zone and East Gurage Zone, a fertile...

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Phoenicia
Selasa, 2026-08-04 02:45:22

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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Fertile Crescent
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:14:09

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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Ziony Zevit
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 13:10:08

13, 1942) is an American scholar of biblical literature and Northwest Semitic languages, and a professor at the American Jewish University. Zevit received...

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Nazism
Minggu, 2026-08-09 07:11:44

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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Sacha Baron Cohen
Minggu, 2026-08-09 00:36:01

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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Safaitic
Jumat, 2026-07-31 09:33:57

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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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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Ugaritic alphabet
Senin, 2026-08-03 00:54:23

It emerged c. 1400 or 1300 BCE to write Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language and fell out of use amid the Late Bronze Age collapse c. 1190 BCE...

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E
Rabu, 2026-07-29 07:05:38

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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Jordan
Kamis, 2026-07-30 22:47:38

'big river', the Nile), it is most plausible that it derives from the Semitic word 'Yarad' ( ירד ; 'flow down' or 'descend"), referring to the river's...

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Philistines
Selasa, 2026-08-04 02:39:14

synthesized with the local Canaanite dialect continuum of the Northwest Semitic languages. There is evidence to suggest that the Philistine identity began...

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Tiamat
Kamis, 2026-07-23 02:27:38

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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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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Yahwism
Rabu, 2026-08-05 04:33:04

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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Ashima
Kamis, 2026-06-11 20:42:43

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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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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Sumerian language
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 01:24:10

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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Abyssinia
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 03:03:12

derivative ethnonym, Abyssinian, was often used to refer to the Ethio-Semitic speaking inhabitants of the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The origin...

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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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Hamites
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 11:41:39

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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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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Maryannu
Senin, 2025-07-28 14:16:21

the Amarna letters written by Haapi. The majority of the Maryannu had Semitic and Hurrian names. Asia portal Late Bronze Age collapse: Warfare Indo-Aryan...

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List of ethnic groups in Ethiopia
Kamis, 2026-07-16 11:47:26

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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Geʽez
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 19:19:30

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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Laryngeal theory
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 10:46:06

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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Qoph
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 07:20:12

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician qōp 𐤒, Hebrew qūp̄ ק, Aramaic qop 𐡒, Syriac...

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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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Myrrh
Kamis, 2026-07-30 23:59:30

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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George Aaron Barton
Minggu, 2026-06-14 18:21:36

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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Paris Hilton
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:16:59

(December 4, 2014). "Anti-Semitic stalker targets Paris Hilton". The Times of Israel. "Paris Hilton – Death Threats By Anti-Semitic Crazy Man". TMZ. December...

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Syriac language
Minggu, 2026-08-02 09:43:31

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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Tsade
Minggu, 2026-07-26 07:48:01

ṣādē, ṣaddi, ṣad, tzadi, sadhe, tzaddik) is the eighteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ṣādē 𐤑, Hebrew ṣādī צ, Aramaic ṣāḏē 𐡑, Syriac...

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

Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt 𐤁, Hebrew bēt ב, Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Syriac bēṯ ܒ and Arabic...

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Greek alphabet
Senin, 2026-07-13 08:11:13

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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S
Kamis, 2026-07-16 13:11:05

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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Genitive case
Selasa, 2026-06-30 14:22:43

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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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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Verb–subject–object word order
Senin, 2026-06-08 02:02:31

teacher reads the book ^* Arabic script is written right-to-left Another Semitic language, Biblical Hebrew, uses VSO, as in Genesis 1:1, which is seen here...

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Septuagint
Rabu, 2026-08-05 13:11:55

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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Nick Cannon
Kamis, 2026-08-06 11:18:55

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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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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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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Naga Munchetty
Selasa, 2026-08-04 17:46:29

Munchetty narrated the BBC documentary Fear and Faith in Paris looking at anti-Semitic attacks in Paris and their impact on the Jewish community in France. She...

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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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Nabu
Kamis, 2026-07-30 19:09:51

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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Haddad
Rabu, 2026-07-22 14:26:30

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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Hamas
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:30:10

out effective and indiscriminate stabbing and shooting attacks; and anti-Semitic cartoons as a central means of dehumanizing the Israeli/Jew in the Palestinian...

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Panorama (British TV programme)
Jumat, 2026-07-24 09:51:51

key issue has been missed – the overt and frightening racist and anti-Semitic abuse and violence of the kind broadcast by Panorama is both wrong and...

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List of British Jewish entertainers
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 03:14:56

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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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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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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Criticism of Israel
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 10:57:15

and to criticise it is to be immediately dubbed anti-semitic, as if the Palestinians were not semitic. I am not even anti-white, despite the madness of that...

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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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Ugaritic
Selasa, 2026-08-04 17:50:12

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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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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Khuzdul
Senin, 2026-08-03 14:01:50

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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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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Jasper (given name)
Kamis, 2026-07-23 16:03:48

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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Mahris
Minggu, 2026-07-05 16:31:09

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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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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Zionist antisemitism
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 17:44:33

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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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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Belus
Kamis, 2024-11-28 23:09:52

(Ancient Greek: Βῆλος, Bē̂los) was the indifferent classical rendering of the Semitic words bēlu and baʿal ("lord") as a theonym, personal name, and royal title...

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Zay language
Kamis, 2026-07-02 09:25:03

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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Chaldea
Minggu, 2026-08-02 20:42:13

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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Soqotrans
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 12:14:46

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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Goyim Defense League
Minggu, 2026-07-05 23:38:23

for being 'tricked' into supporting anti-semitic hate group". Tone Deaf. Retrieved July 25, 2019. "Anti-Semitic Group Hangs Banner in Support of Kanye's...

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Christopher Rollston
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 01:27:29

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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Proto-Afroasiatic homeland
Minggu, 2026-08-02 20:28:25

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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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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Dwarves in Middle-earth
Senin, 2026-07-13 23:05:51

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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Horn of Africa
Jumat, 2026-07-24 00:18:49

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

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Eritrea
Minggu, 2026-08-09 04:44:56

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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Kaph
Kamis, 2026-07-30 03:28:56

Ugaritic alphabet. Kaph (also spelled kaf) is the eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician kāp 𐤊, Hebrew kāp̄ כ, Aramaic kāp 𐡊, Syriac...

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Phaistos Disc decipherment claims
Minggu, 2026-06-14 15:36:49

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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Holocaust denial
Rabu, 2026-08-05 15:21:49

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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Manat (goddess)
Rabu, 2026-08-05 14:31:50

goddesses of Mecca, she was also very possibly among the most ancient of the Semitic pantheon as well. Hisham ibn-al-Kalbi also reports that she was the oldest...

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Wolane people
Rabu, 2026-04-15 04:25:54

people are an ethnic group in central Ethiopia. Wolane people speak a Semitic language which is closely related to Sil'te, Zay and Harari languages....

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Antisemitism in the British Labour Party
Jumat, 2026-07-24 07:46:37

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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Enki
Rabu, 2026-07-22 19:40:22

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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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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South Arabia
Kamis, 2026-08-06 01:38:03

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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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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ʿAṯtar
Kamis, 2026-08-06 20:51:07

Athtar, 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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Ancient North Arabian
Senin, 2026-07-13 06:24:15

"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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Giorgio Levi Della Vida
Jumat, 2026-06-26 06:29:43

Italian Jewish linguist whose expertise lay in Hebrew, Arabic, and other Semitic languages, as well as on the history and culture of the Near East. Born...

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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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Maltese people
Kamis, 2026-06-11 21:41:33

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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Mesmes language
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 06:11:17

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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Evil Elmo
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 06:53:09

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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Benjamin Suchard
Selasa, 2026-06-23 01:56:29

Benjamin D. Suchard (born 1988) is a historical linguist specializing in the Semitic and Afroasiatic language families. His research focuses on phonological...

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Taw
Jumat, 2026-07-24 20:17:20

Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic tāʾ ت, Aramaic taw 𐡕‎, Hebrew tav ת, Phoenician tāw 𐤕...

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Suret language
Jumat, 2026-07-31 03:20:33

Assyrian Empire, which slowly displaced and was influenced by the East Semitic Akkadian language beginning around the 10th century BC. They have been...

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Broken plural
Minggu, 2026-07-05 14:55:26

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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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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Old Arabic
Selasa, 2026-07-21 20:46:54

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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Śawt
Senin, 2026-08-03 23:51:24

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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QAnon
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 07:12:08

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

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Rephaite
Senin, 2026-07-27 00:15:55

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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Arabic definite article
Jumat, 2026-07-31 11:59:49

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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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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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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Racial antisemitism
Minggu, 2026-06-07 11:53:14

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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Hobyot
Kamis, 2026-07-02 23:21:56

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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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
Senin, 2026-07-20 19:20:27

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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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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Hebrews
Kamis, 2026-07-02 03:41:17

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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Vav-consecutive
Senin, 2026-08-03 16:50:17

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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Aramean (disambiguation)
Rabu, 2025-06-11 06:26:11

refer to: Aramean language, a subgroup of Northwest Semitic languages Arameans, an ancient Semitic people of the Near East Aramean identity, modern communities...

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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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Antisemitism in Russia
Minggu, 2026-07-12 02:45:04

"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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Lebanese Arabic
Minggu, 2026-07-05 01:10:17

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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Western Neo-Aramaic
Jumat, 2026-06-26 11:56:57

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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Jesus (name)
Jumat, 2026-07-03 01:34:58

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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Kadesh
Senin, 2026-06-08 19:48:59

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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Canary Mission
Senin, 2026-08-03 21:35:37

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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Algerian Arabic
Senin, 2026-07-20 20:38:25

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

Resh /rɛʃ/ is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician rēš 𐤓, Hebrew rēš ר, Aramaic rēš 𐡓, Syriac rēš ܪ, and Arabic rāʾ ر. It...

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Nabataean Aramaic
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 02:46:06

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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Ancient South Arabian
Minggu, 2026-06-28 01:02:14

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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Himyaritic language
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 10:08:48

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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Mehri language
Kamis, 2026-06-18 02:48:53

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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History of Ethiopia
Jumat, 2026-07-31 23:14:44

thousands of years. Abyssinia or rather "Ze Etiyopia" was ruled by the Semitic Abyssinians (Habesha) composed mainly of the Amhara, Tigrayans and the...

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Aaron D. Rubin
Minggu, 2026-07-05 20:19:15

to the Comparative Grammar of Egyptian and Semitic", and his PhD dissertation was titled "Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization". Some of Rubin's most...

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Mari, Syria
Minggu, 2026-07-26 21:57:46

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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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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Subhas Chandra Bose
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 21:56:02

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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Race and appearance of Jesus
Selasa, 2026-06-23 20:47:24

historically inaccurate. By the 19th century, theories that Jesus was non-Semitic were being developed, with writers suggesting he was variously white, black...

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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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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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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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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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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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Proto-Arabic language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 22:29:03

of three stages in the development of Preclassic Arabic, following the Semitic Arabian languages and preceding Early Arabic of the 3rd to 6th centuries...

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Turoyo language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:41:42

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

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Facebook content management controversies
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 11:35:19

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, 2026-08-02 21:31:05

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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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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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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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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Ayin
Senin, 2026-06-08 10:36:46

(also ayn or ain; transliterated ⟨ʿ ⟩) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē 𐡏,...

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Cronus
Rabu, 2026-06-10 01:34:04

arguing that, in Semitic usage, as in the Hebrew Bible, qeren was a signifier of "power". When Greek writers encountered the Semitic deity El, they rendered...

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Imperial Aramaic
Minggu, 2026-06-28 01:02:22

"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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Ugarit
Minggu, 2026-08-02 18:07:16

alphabet. Ugaritic texts were written in a previously unknown Northwest Semitic tongue—the Ugaritic language. Archaeological excavations of Ugarit show...

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Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
Jumat, 2026-07-24 09:05:19

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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Candace Owens
Rabu, 2026-08-05 01:27:24

Australian and New Zealand governments to deny Owens entry due to her anti-Semitic views and remarks. Annetta Able, who survived Mengele's experiments, said...

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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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Greek Dark Ages
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:16:20

experience of it. The Greeks adapted the abjad used to write Phoenician, a Semitic language used by the Phoenicians, notably adapting the matres lectionis...

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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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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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Ernest Renan
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:25:32

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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Jim Caviezel
Senin, 2026-07-27 16:28:32

controversy that erupted over The Passion, including accusations of anti-Semitic undertones, Caviezel said, "It's been the most frustrating thing to watch...

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John Galliano
Jumat, 2026-08-07 21:01:17

June for anti-semitic abuse. Galliano's lawyer argued that the "series of public outbursts during which he uttered racist and anti-Semitic insults in a...

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

Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician dālt 𐤃, Hebrew dālet ד, Aramaic dālaṯ 𐡃...

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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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Paul Joüon
Rabu, 2026-07-29 14:45:19

1871 – 18 February 1940 in Nantes) was a French Jesuit priest, hebraist, Semitic language specialist and member of the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Author...

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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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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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History of the ancient Levant
Selasa, 2026-07-07 22:53:26

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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Muhammad the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
Senin, 2026-07-06 11:08:03

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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Oceanus
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:30:07

according to West, no "very convincing" foreign models have been found. A Semitic derivation has been suggested by several scholars, while R. S. P. Beekes...

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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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Cecil Weir
Selasa, 2026-06-16 22:12:32

was a Scottish academic and theologian, who was Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages at the University of Glasgow from 1937 until 1968. Weir was born...

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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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David Dees
Minggu, 2026-08-02 23:10:28

Toby (January 26, 2017). "German schoolbook publisher apologizes for anti-Semitic illustration". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved October 27, 2024. Frohn...

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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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Agag
Senin, 2026-08-03 20:08:53

Agag (/ˈeɪɡæɡ/; Hebrew: אֲגָג, 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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Ancient North Arabian languages
Minggu, 2026-06-07 11:40:49

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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Arabic grammar
Jumat, 2026-07-03 06:37:20

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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Suffix
Jumat, 2026-06-26 11:06:15

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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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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Abba (given name)
Minggu, 2026-04-05 01:45:44

Abba is a form of ab, meaning "father" in many Semitic languages. It is used as a given name, but was also used as a title or honorific for religious...

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Agaw languages
Jumat, 2026-03-20 20:18:31

Eritrea. They form the main substratum influence on Amharic and other Ethio-Semitic languages. The Central Cushitic languages are classified as follows (after...

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Proto-Berber language
Kamis, 2026-07-09 18:22:12

Berber languages are cousins to the Egyptian language, Cushitic languages, Semitic languages, Chadic languages, and the Omotic languages. Proto-Berber shows...

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Mesopotamian Arabic
Jumat, 2026-07-03 00:44:51

Monferrer; Watson, Wilfred G. E. (eds.). Archaism and Innovation in the Semitic Languages: Selected Papers. Oriens Academic. ISBN 978-84-695-7829-2. Smart...

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Zionist as a pejorative
Selasa, 2026-07-28 05:19:03

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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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
Jumat, 2026-07-03 02:05:41

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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Hyksos
Selasa, 2026-08-04 23:17:55

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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Friedrich Nietzsche
Minggu, 2026-08-09 04:59:04

Nietzsche saw his own writings as "completely buried and in this anti-Semitic dump" of Schmeitzner—associating the publisher with a movement that should...

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Joseph Naveh
Selasa, 2026-03-10 08:48:03

Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a prominent scholar in the field of West Semitic scripts and ancient inscriptions. Naveh was born into a Jewish family in...

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Demographics of Eritrea
Rabu, 2026-06-24 00:09:47

make up around 50% of the population; the Tigre people, who also speak Semitic languages, constitute around 30% of residents. Most of the rest of the...

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Imperfect
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 03:48:10

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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Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 02:59:47

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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Samalian language
Jumat, 2026-07-31 09:34:43

Samalian is an extinct Semitic language spoken and first attested in Samʼal. It is primarily known from three inscriptions, the Hadad Statue and the Panamuwa...

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Habesha peoples
Rabu, 2026-08-05 19:01:16

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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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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Harla people
Selasa, 2026-03-10 13:12:08

They spoke the Harla language, which belonged to either the Cushitic or Semitic branches of the Afroasiatic family. The Harla are credited by the present-day...

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N
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 13:20:19

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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Ammon
Senin, 2026-06-22 22:34:45

Hebrew: עַמּוֹן ʻAmmōn; Arabic: عمّون, romanized: ʻAmmūn) was an ancient Semitic-speaking kingdom occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent...

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Languages of Europe
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:29:02

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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Inanna
Minggu, 2026-08-09 06:23:32

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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Talmud
Jumat, 2026-07-24 10:17:57

free dictionary. Talmud translates as "instruction, learning", from the Semitic root lmd, meaning "teach, study". In antiquity, the two major centres of...

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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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Phasael (name)
Rabu, 2024-06-12 23:45:56

Phasa'el is an ancient Semitic, probably mainly Nabataean, gender-neutral name, i.e. used for both men and women. The Semitic name took the form Faṣay-ʾel...

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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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MLK (disambiguation)
Kamis, 2026-05-28 22:24:57

civil rights activist. MLK or mlk may also refer to: MLK, the Northwest Semitic spelling of Malik (king). MLK, the Phoenician spelling of the deity Moloch...

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Talal
Rabu, 2026-06-10 23:19:07

Ṭalāl) is an Arabic masculine given name and a surname. The name's Proto-Semitic root is ṭ-l-l, meaning "dew". People with the name include: Talal of Jordan...

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Adposition
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 07:50:44

hi ohonof – 'he took it from me'. Inflected prepositions are found in Semitic languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic and Amharic....

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Tetragrammaton
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 01:15:56

niqqud: יַהוֶה) is now almost universally accepted among Biblical and Semitic linguistics scholars, though the vocalization Jehovah continues to have...

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Transjordan (region)
Selasa, 2026-07-28 06:12:42

romanized: Sharq al ʾUrdun, lit. 'East of the Jordan'. The Shasu were Semitic-speaking cattle nomads in the Levant from the late Bronze Age to the Early...

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38th century BC
Jumat, 2026-08-07 00:51:48

(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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Fred Trump
Senin, 2026-06-15 05:01:19

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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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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Salamé
Selasa, 2025-02-25 00:59:27

which means "peaceable". It derives from a personal first name, and the Semitic word S-L-M meaning "peace". Among Maronites, the name may derive from the...

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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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List of modern pagan movements
Rabu, 2026-06-10 23:58:13

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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Hurro-Urartian languages
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 19:16:42

century, Hurrian and Urartian were soon recognized as not related to the Semitic or later arriving Indo-European languages, Kartvelian languages, nor to...

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Nick Bougas
Rabu, 2026-07-29 10:34:21

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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Albert T. Clay
Minggu, 2026-03-29 20:16:23

4, 1866 – September 14, 1925) was an American professor, historian and Semitic linguist. He was professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at...

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Ẓāʾ
Minggu, 2026-06-14 04:56:50

853 times in the Quran. In relation to other Semitic languages In some reconstructions of Proto-Semitic phonology, there is an emphatic interdental fricative...

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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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Nun (letter)
Jumat, 2026-08-07 00:53:14

Nun is the fourteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician nūn 𐤍, Hebrew nūn נ, Aramaic nūn 𐡍‎, Syriac nūn ܢ, and Arabic nūn ن (in abjadi...

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He (letter)
Jumat, 2026-07-24 01:25:59

He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician hē 𐤄, Hebrew hē ה, Aramaic hē 𐡄, Syriac hē ܗ, and Arabic hāʾ ه. It is also related...

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Ancient Carthage
Jumat, 2026-08-07 23:15:18

political office. Carthaginians spoke a variety of Phoenician called Punic, a Semitic language originating in their ancestral homeland of Phoenicia (present-day...

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Ethnic groups in the Caucasus
Minggu, 2026-07-05 06:54:50

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

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Geoffrey Khan
Minggu, 2026-07-05 20:20:45

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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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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Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White
Jumat, 2026-06-26 02:55:14

"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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Lemba people
Rabu, 2026-07-08 14:47:59

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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Arabic Wikipedia
Senin, 2026-07-27 14:21:13

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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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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Derived stem
Minggu, 2026-06-21 21:51:10

(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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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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Neo-Hittite states
Rabu, 2026-05-27 15:37:55

Indo-European languages and Aramaic belonging to the Northwest Semitic group of Semitic languages. Several questions related to the regional grouping of...

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Conspiracy theory
Minggu, 2026-08-02 14:34:41

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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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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Max Margolis
Jumat, 2026-06-12 21:26:15

assistant professor of Semitic languages in the University of California; in 1898, associate professor; and from 1902 the head of the Semitic department. When...

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Ursula Schattner-Rieser
Selasa, 2026-05-19 17:04:20

1966) is a French-Austrian scholar of Jewish studies, specializing in Semitic linguistics within the framework of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, the Dead...

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Gustav Mahler
Minggu, 2026-07-19 05:25:59

secure the post—experienced regular opposition and hostility from the anti-Semitic press. Nevertheless, his innovative productions and insistence on the highest...

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Peninsular Arabic
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 12:12:48

displays a past conjugation with the very archaic -k suffix, as in southern Semitic languages. The dialect of Aden has /ɡʲ/ > [ɡ] as in Cairo.[citation needed]...

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Dow v. United States
Rabu, 2026-03-25 19:16:12

Alabama, stated that the Syrians were semitic and since most Jews at the time coming from Europe were considered semitic and white, Asian Semites should be...

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Ku Klux Klan
Rabu, 2026-08-05 01:05:35

based on a new anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, Prohibitionist, and anti-Semitic agenda that reflected contemporary social tensions, particularly those...

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Shasu
Minggu, 2026-07-19 07:31:02

The Shasu (Ancient Egyptian: šꜣsw, possibly pronounced šaswə) were Semitic-speaking pastoral nomads in the Southern Levant from the late Bronze Age to...

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Ilhan Omar
Kamis, 2026-08-06 09:48:48

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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Nostratic languages
Senin, 2026-08-03 03:52:18

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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Antisemitism in Australia
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 19:08:15

"Australia: 'Anti-Semitic incidents on the rise'. ynet. 26 November 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2024.. Kleerekoper, Victor (1989). More anti-semitic daubings....

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Sahar (name)
Kamis, 2026-07-30 13:15:18

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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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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Saleh (name)
Jumat, 2026-06-12 10:30:48

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

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Canaan (son of Ham)
Senin, 2026-06-29 02:03:20

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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Tigrinya grammar
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:07:37

Ethiopic characters. This article describes the grammar of Tigrinya, a South Semitic language which is spoken primarily in Eritrea and Ethiopia, and is written...

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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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Kabir (teacher)
Minggu, 2026-02-22 19:05:49

Muslim scholar or a teacher. Enrico Cerulli states the term is of Ethiopian Semitic origin. In the early sixteenth century texts, the companions of the leaders...

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Shehri language
Selasa, 2026-07-14 03:48:16

The vowel system is made up of an 8-member set, containing the normal Semitic i-u-a, along with tense and lax vowels, and a central vowel. The vowel...

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Palestinian Arabic
Senin, 2026-08-03 16:44:08

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

the third (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order) letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician gīml 𐤂, Hebrew gīmel ג, Aramaic gāmal 𐡂...

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Hussein Ali Mahfoudh
Kamis, 2025-07-03 15:11:24

1926 – 19 January 2009) was an Iraqi scholar and author in the field of Semitic languages and Historical studies. He was known as the Shaykh of Baghdad...

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Ephraim Isaac
Rabu, 2026-07-22 19:27:59

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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Sabians
Rabu, 2026-07-29 10:21:07

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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Lilith
Kamis, 2026-08-06 04:37:55

that the Hebrew and the earlier Akkadian names are derived from Proto-Semitic. Charles Fossey (1902) has this literally translating to "female night...

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Japhetic theory
Kamis, 2026-03-05 06:14:00

that the Kartvelian languages of the Caucasus area are related to the Semitic languages of the Middle East. The hypothesis gained favor in the 1930s...

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Qatabānian language
Selasa, 2026-07-21 11:56:35

languages of the Old South Arabian (or "Ṣayhadic") sub-group of South Semitic, was spoken mainly but not exclusively in the kingdom of Qatabān, located...

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Razihi language
Minggu, 2026-04-12 11:29:44

Razihi (Rāziḥī), originally known to linguists as "Naẓīri", is a South Semitic language spoken by at least 62,900 people in the vicinity of Mount Razih...

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Pogrom
Jumat, 2026-08-07 08:43:32

minority". However, Bergmann adds that in Western usage, the word's "anti-Semitic overtones" have been retained. Historian David Engel supports this view...

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Johannes Pedersen (theologian)
Selasa, 2026-06-23 16:53:36

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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Assyrians
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 02:40:29

ancient Assyria. They speak varieties of Neo-Aramaic, a branch of the Semitic language family that replaced Akkadian during the Neo-Assyrian Empire,...

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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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Shalom aleichem
Senin, 2026-04-13 05:30:00

respond Aleichem shalom as part of the Kiddush levana ritual. Many other Semitic languages (the language family to which Hebrew belongs), as well as some...

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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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Ilah
Senin, 2026-07-20 19:08:55

definite article Al ('the') + Ilah, though this is a matter of dispute. The Semitic root ʾlh (Arabic ʾilāh', Aramaic ʾAlāh, ʾElāh, Hebrew ʾelōah) may be ʾl...

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Friedrich Müller (linguist)
Minggu, 2026-05-03 23:56:51

May 1898) was a linguist and ethnologist who originated the term Hamito-Semitic languages for what are now called the Afro-Asiatic languages. He studied...

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Juda Lion Palache
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 18:10:34

Lion Palache (October 26, 1886 – October 18, 1944) was a professor of Semitic languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic) at the University of Amsterdam and...

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Eugen J. Pentiuc
Rabu, 2026-01-21 00:46:01

Studies and Christian Origins, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at the Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology...

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Persian language
Minggu, 2026-08-02 07:03:27

Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic. London: RoutledgeCurzon. pp. 79–96. ISBN 0-415-30804-6. Thackston...

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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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Modern Standard Arabic
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:42:27

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

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Angelo Traina
Jumat, 2025-10-31 00:50:27

biblical scholar, best known for his emphasis on what he called restoring "Semitic proper names to their Aramaic and Hebrew forms". Traina was born in Sicily...

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Khazars
Selasa, 2026-07-28 08:56:43

dismissed as speculative. Israel's ambassador to Britain branded it "an anti-Semitic action financed by the Palestinians", while Bernard Lewis claimed that...

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K-P-R
Jumat, 2026-03-06 22:57:02

text. Look up كفر or כפר in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. K-P-R is a Semitic root, in Arabic and Hebrew rendered as K-F-R (Arabic: ك-ف-ر; Hebrew: כ־פ־ר)...

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Joseph Sobran
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 04:14:38

William F. Buckley Jr. termed some of Sobran's writings "contextually anti-semitic". In the early 2000s, Sobran was a speaker for the Holocaust denial group...

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Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives
Jumat, 2026-08-07 19:22:23

Semitic features, especially in their system of phonology. For example, they preserve the lateral fricatives *ś [ɬ] and *ṣ́/ḏ̣ [ɬʼ] of Proto-Semitic....

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Languages of Asia
Minggu, 2026-08-02 12:45:22

Afroasiatic languages (in older sources Hamito-Semitic) are represented in Asia by the Semitic branch. Semitic languages are spoken in West Asia, and include...

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Baal Cycle
Jumat, 2026-07-24 02:11:20

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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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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Arabic alphabet
Kamis, 2026-07-16 07:46:45

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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Rolf Furuli
Senin, 2026-05-25 18:18:33

(born 19 December 1942) is a Norwegian linguist who was a lecturer in Semitic languages at the University of Oslo; he retired in 2011. Furuli has taught...

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Languages of Ethiopia
Kamis, 2026-07-09 11:54:09

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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O
Rabu, 2026-07-08 20:05:46

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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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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Ethiopians
Jumat, 2026-08-07 02:53:33

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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Asherah (submarine)
Senin, 2025-12-15 01:45:03

Bass to examine underwater sites. She was named after Asherah, an ancient Semitic goddess known as "she who treads on the sea". The two-person submarine...

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Alice Walker
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:19:47

admiration for Icke and his book, saying: "I do not believe he is anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish". Walker argued that any "attempt to smear David Icke, and...

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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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Peter Ambarach
Selasa, 2026-06-16 23:31:53

Ambarach (1663–1742) was a Maronite priest and a pioneer of printing in Semitic languages, operating for the Catholic church from Florence. Ambarach was...

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Fusional language
Rabu, 2026-08-05 08:43:24

Modern) and Albanian Another notable group of fusional languages is the Semitic languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, and Amharic. These also often involve...

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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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Ezra Stiles
Minggu, 2026-08-02 18:15:28

until age 24. As president of Yale, Stiles became its first professor of Semitics, and required all students to study Hebrew (as Harvard students already...

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Ḥarsusi language
Jumat, 2026-07-10 07:45:44

natively known as Ḥersīyet (pronunciation in Harsusi: [ħʌrsiːjət]), is a Semitic language of Oman, spoken by the Harasis people. It is classified as a moribund...

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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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Baruch Podolsky
Selasa, 2026-02-24 02:45:44

radio presenter, teacher, and noted expert in the field of Hebrew and Semitic languages. He authored a number of popular Hebrew dictionaries and science...

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Rebecca (given name)
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 10:26:07

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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Svoboda (Ukraine)
Minggu, 2026-08-09 01:04:32

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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Jews
Senin, 2026-08-03 06:19:48

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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John Cusack
Kamis, 2026-08-06 04:43:49

2023. Retrieved July 29, 2020. "John Cusack: Actor apologises for anti-Semitic tweet". BBC News. June 18, 2019. Archived from the original on April 5...

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Japheth
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 21:55:07

in Greek: Moschoi), who claimed to represent non-Indo-European and non-Semitic, possibly "Proto-Iberian" tribes that inhabited Anatolia during the 3rd-1st...

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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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Philip K. Hitti
Rabu, 2025-07-16 04:28:32

University, and authority on Arab and Middle Eastern history, Islam, and Semitic languages. He almost single-handedly created the discipline of Arabic studies...

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Maltese
Rabu, 2025-09-10 06:36:22

Maltese alphabet Maltese cuisine Maltese culture Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people Maltese people, people from Malta or...

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Judeo-Tat
Selasa, 2026-07-21 07:00:05

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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Rudolf Macúch
Kamis, 2026-07-30 18:40:14

linguist, naturalized as German after 1974. He was noted in the field of Semitic studies for his research work in three main areas: (1) Mandaic studies...

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Š
Jumat, 2026-08-07 04:38:57

Akkadian orthography) the Hittite /s/ phoneme, as well as the /ʃ/ phoneme of Semitic languages, transliterating shin (Phoenician and its descendants), the direct...

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Hebron
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:37:43

and medical hub. The name Hebron appears to trace back to two northwest Semitic languages, which coalesce in the form ḥbr, having reflexes in Hebrew and...

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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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Daniel David Luckenbill
Rabu, 2025-10-15 17:30:24

Memoriam: A Bibliography of D. D. Luckenbill. In: The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 45, 1929, S. 90–93. (JSTOR) A Study of the temple...

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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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Wild 'n Out
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 09:02:06

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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Punic people
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 16:53:11

known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people who migrated from Phoenicia to the western Mediterranean during...

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Hadramautic language
Selasa, 2026-07-14 19:29:04

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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Heth
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:47:39

Ḥeth, sometimes written Chet, Khet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ḥēt 𐤇, Hebrew ḥēṯ ח, Aramaic ḥēṯ 𐡇, Syriac...

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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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Palatalization (sound change)
Senin, 2026-07-27 04:42:19

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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Rudder
Minggu, 2026-07-26 07:16:54

F. Edgerton: “Ancient Egyptian Steering Gear”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 43, No. 4. (1927), pp. 255-265 R. O. Faulkner:...

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Given name
Kamis, 2026-07-30 21:42:42

the New Testament—such as Thomas, Martha, and Bartholomew. All of the Semitic peoples of history and the present day use at least some names constructed...

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Norman Finkelstein
Jumat, 2026-08-07 04:44:03

the German people, that "Germans overwhelmingly condemned the Nazi anti-Semitic atrocities", and that Goldhagen's book was successful because of its Zionist...

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Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Senin, 2026-07-27 06:20:50

English Publication details Former names Hebraica, American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures History 1884–present Publisher University of...

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Kitfo
Senin, 2026-07-27 00:19:06

clarified butter infused with herbs and spices). The word comes from the Ethio-Semitic triconsonantal root k-t-f, meaning "to chop finely; mince". Kitfo cooked...

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John N. Oswalt
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 05:50:46

Theological Seminary. He teaches in theology, Old Testament and ancient Semitic languages including Hebrew. Oswalt adheres to single, unitary authorship...

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Charles G. Häberl
Rabu, 2026-07-15 19:05:50

Religion at Rutgers University. Häberl's primary interests include Mandaeism, Semitic philology, and Middle Eastern studies. He is known for his translation...

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Terms for Syriac Christians
Kamis, 2026-06-25 04:22:48

includes a specific group of ethnoreligious terms, related to various Semitic communities of Neo-Aramaic-speaking Christians, that are indigenous to...

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The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran
Jumat, 2026-07-31 23:52:14

the historical-linguistic assumption that Arabic is closer to a proto-Semitic language than Aramaic is.:12 The second main thesis is that the word "quran"...

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Mizraim
Jumat, 2026-08-07 23:41:02

land of Egypt and its people. Mizraim is the Hebrew cognate of a common Semitic source word for the land now known as Egypt. It is similar to Miṣr in modern...

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George Ricker Berry
Jumat, 2026-05-08 22:55:21

, Ph.D., (15 October 1865 – 24 May 1945) was an internationally known Semitic scholar and archaeologist, ordained Baptist minister, and Professor Emeritus...

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Tigre people
Senin, 2026-07-27 06:20:09

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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