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Aramaic

noun
1.
A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia.
2.
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.  Synonym: Aramaic script.



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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Biblical Aramaic


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"Aramaic" Quotes from Famous Books



... answered with a leap that landed them alongside the Roman's car. Messala, on the perilous edge of the goal, heard, but dared not look to see what the awakening portended. From the people he received no sign. Above the noises of the race there was but one voice, and that was Ben-Hur's. In the old Aramaic, as the sheik himself, he ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... passages which are not supported by the Greek text are historically the least trustworthy, cf. xxxix. 11, 12. These different recensions of the original text attest the wide popularity of the book; an Aramaic gloss in x. 11 shows the liberties which transcribers took with the text, the integrity of which suffered much from its very popularity. The interest of the later scribes was rather in homiletics than in ...
— Introduction to the Old Testament • John Edgar McFadyen


Words linked to "Aramaic" :   script, Semitic, Assyrian, Mandean, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Mandaean, Biblical Aramaic, Aramaic script


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