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ARAMAIC

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it

Synonyms:

Aramaic; Aramaic script

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Aramaic" is a kind of...):

script (a particular orthography or writing system)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Aramaic" is a kind of...):

Semitic (a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Aramaic"):

Biblical Aramaic (the form of Aramaic that was spoken in Palestine in the time of the New Testament)

Assyrian; Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (the language of modern Iraq)

Mandaean; Mandean (the form of Aramaic used by the Mandeans)

Derivation:

Aramaic (of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Aramaic (a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia)

Derivation:

Aramaic (a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia)

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