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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • biblical Of or pertaining to the descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah.
  • In a narrower sense, of or pertaining to the Israeli, Jewish, or Hebrew people.
  • Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.
  • Of or pertaining to the Semites: Semitic people.

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Proper noun:

  • The Semitic languages in general.

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