- Aramaic
- Aramaic northern branch of Semitic language group, 1834, from biblical land of Aram, roughly corresponding to modern Syria; probably related to Hebrew and Aramaic rum "to be high," thus originally "highland."
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Aramaic — ► NOUN ▪ a branch of the Semitic family of languages, used as a lingua franca in the Near East from the 6th century BC and still spoken in some communities. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ relating to this language. ORIGIN Greek Aramaios of Aram (the biblical name … English terms dictionary
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Aramaic — 1. noun /ˌæɹ.ə.ˈmei.ɪk/ A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group including (but not limited to): : The language of the Aramaeans from the tenth century BC: often called Old Aramaic. : The language of the administration in… … Wiktionary
Aramaic — A language closely related to Hebrew and widely spoken in various dialects in Palestine from the 8th cent. BCE up to and after the NT period, and is the liturgical language of a diminishing Christian group in modern Iraq. It was the language of… … Dictionary of the Bible
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Aramaic — /ar euh may ik/, n. 1. Also, Aramean, Aramaean. a northwest Semitic language that from c300 B.C. A.D. 650 was a lingua franca for nearly all of SW Asia and was the everyday speech of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine. Abbr.: Aram Cf. Biblical… … Universalium
