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Aramaic

Meaning

Adj

Referring to the Aramaic language,
,
or poetry.

Noun

An Aramaean.

Name

  • A
    of
    in the Northwest Semitic language group including (but not
    to):
  • The language of the Aramaeans from the
    BC: often called Old Aramaic.
  • The language of the
    in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian
    from the
    to
    BC: often called Imperial Aramaic or Official Aramaic.
  • The language of
    of the Hebrew Bible,
    the
    of Ezra and Daniel: often called Biblical Aramaic.
  • The language of Jesus of Nazareth: a form of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Galilean Aramaic.
  • The language of Jewish
    , Midrash and the Talmuds, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.
  • The
    of various Christian
    : often called Syriac.
  • The
    of the Mandaeans: usually called Mandaic.
  • Any language of this family
    called Neo-Aramaic, and
    by
    also Judeo-Aramaic and Syriac
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