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Semitic Common

Semitic has 5 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Adjective · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family

Adjective
1

of or relating to the group of Semitic languages

"Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology"

2

of or relating to or characteristic of Semites

"Semite peoples"

3

Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afroasiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.

Proper Noun
1

The Semitic languages in general.

See Also
anat tigre amharic syriac sabaean possessive suffix phoenician semite
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
Afroasiatic
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
Akkadian Amharic Arabic Aramaic Maltese Canaanitic
Rhyming Words
tic otic etic ictic mutic lotic attic ontic istic vatic octic latic metic artic ustic matic votic retic optic nitic
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