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NOUN
Semite (noun) · Semites (plural noun)
a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs.
ORIGIN
from modern Latin Semita, via late Latin from Greek Sēm ‘Shem’, son of Noah in the Bible, from whom these peoples were traditionally supposed to be descended.
Definition of Semite. 1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs. b : a descendant of these peoples. 2 : a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language.
May 18, 2022 · Semite, name given in the 19th century to a member of any people who speak one of the Semitic languages, a family of languages spoken primarily in parts of western Asia and Africa. The term therefore came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews, some …
The name Semite comes from Shem, the eldest of the three sons of Noah. In the Greek and Latin versions of the Bible, Shem becomes Sem, since neither Greek nor Latin has any way of representing the initial sound of the Hebrew name. It was not until 1781 that this group was given the name which it has retained ever since. In …
The terms "anti-Semite" or "antisemitism" came by a circuitous route to refer more narrowly to anyone who was hostile or discriminatory towards Jews in particular. Anthropologists of the 19th century such as Ernest Renan readily aligned linguistic groupings with ethnicity and culture, appealing to anecdote, science a…
Semite [ sem-ahyt or, especially British, see-mahyt ] noun a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, …
Semite ( ˈsiːmaɪt) or less commonly Shemite n 1. (Peoples) a member of the group of Caucasoid peoples who speak a Semitic language, including the Jews and Arabs as well as the ancient …
Semite. / ˈ sɛˌmaɪt/ Brit / ˈ siːˌmaɪt/. noun. plural Semites. Britannica Dictionary definition of SEMITE. [count] : a member of a group of people originally of southwestern Asia that includes …
Mar 03, 2019 · – Semite – Jews are not the only Semites: this term refers to people linked through related languages including Hebrew but also Amharic, Arabic and Aramaic. Created by …
1 : of, relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic. 2 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the Semites. 3 : …
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. [1] [2] [3] A person who holds such positions is called an …
The name Semite comes from Shem, the eldest of the three sons of Noah. In the Greek and Latin versions of the Bible, Shem becomes Sem, since neither Greek nor Latin has any way of representing the initial sound of the Hebrew name. It was not until 1781 that this group was given the name which it has retained ever since. In …
