Associations to the word «Semitic»
Noun
- Accused
- Hatred
- Dialect
- Nationalism
- Persecution
- Etymology
- Nuremberg
- Script
- Origin
- Chamberlain
- Regime
- Comment
- Goddess
- Protocol
- Julius
- Syriac
- Bc
- Statement
- Egypt
- Christianity
- Islam
- Myth
- Scholar
- Bible
- Philology
- Archaeology
- Laws
- Affinity
- Ancestor
- Cartoon
- Speaker
- Literature
- Phonology
- Vichy
- Mussolini
- Pantheon
- Monograph
- Syrian
- Linguistics
- Celtic
- Plural
- Talmud
- Graffito
- Suffix
- Deluge
- Deity
- Turkic
- Hy
- Libel
- Mccall
- Noun
- Derivation
- Lingua
- Babylon
- Caricature
- Euphrates
- Pro
- Socialist
- Briton
- Nomad
- Offshoot
- Apartheid
- Lexicon
- Mechanics
- Arabia
- Idiom
- Harvard
- Bce
- Ea
- Vocabulary
- Testament
- Mari
- Islamic
- Catholic
- Epithet
- Neo
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
SEMITIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.
SEMITIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
SEMITIC, adjective. (biblical) Of or pertaining to the descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah.
SEMITIC, adjective. (in particular) Of or pertaining to the Israeli, Jewish, or Hebrew people.
SEMITIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to any of the religions which originated among the Semites; Abrahamic.
SEMITIC, proper noun. The Semitic languages in general.
Dictionary definition
SEMITIC, noun. A major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
SEMITIC, adjective. Of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; "Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology".
SEMITIC, adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Semites; "Semite peoples".
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.