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aramaic
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Aramaic refers to the language of the Arameans . Aramaic may also refer to: Aramaic alphabet , adapted from the Phoenician alphabet and became distinctive from it by the 8th century BCE Aramaic Democratic Organization (Aramean Democratic Organization), ...
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a. Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry. n. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group including (but not limited to):
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Aramaic \Ar`a*ma"ic\, a. [See Aram[ae]an , a.] Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aram[ae]an; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including ...
Usage examples of aramaic.
It was composed in Aramaic two thousand years ago by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
Among his many writings is a translation of the entire Zohar from Aramaic to modern Hebrew, together with a detailed commentary on the text.
Early and Middle Persian, hieroglyphics and cuneiform and Aramaic, classical and modern Arabic, the usual knowledge of Greek and Hebrew and Latin and the European tongues, Hindi where relevant and all sciences where necessary for his work.
He lifted the cover, read the first line of Aramaic in the first of the four columns on the page, closed his eyes and began to pray.
Another important effect of Iranian rule was the disappearance of the Mesopotamian languages and the widespread use of Aramaic, the official language of the empire.
One of the Semitic languages, it is related to Aramaic, Phoenician, Syriac, Hebrew, various Ethiopic languages, and the Akkadian of ancient Babylonia and Assyria.
Someone had pinned to the bulletin board a short vocabulary list in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, with the English translation.
But two thousand years ago, the binding language of the Levant had been Aramaic, now considered a dead language.
Well into the second century, synagogues had provided Aramaic translations, or Targums, of Hebrew scripture to the uneducated masses.
He and Izzy had decided that was the safest disguise for him, a mountain yokel on the far edges of Aramaic country.
It was an exorcism, and a very old one, in Aramaic and Latin and corrupt Coptic.
The sheepskin was covered in lines of writing, and upon closer inspection, Rae recognized the script as a form of Aramaic, an ancient language from the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Hal told me the scroll was written in the Aramaic of the time with Greek and Latin words and expressions thrown in.
In fact, Arabic as we understand it is derived from Aramaic, via the cursive script of the Nabateans who, as we have seen, had their capital at Petra, in what is now Jordan.
But the first blow struck in modern times was delivered by Louis Cappel in the early seventeenth century, who showed that the original Old Testament had been written not in Hebrew but in Aramaic, making it a much later work than had previously been supposed.