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US
/ˌɑɹɑˈmɛjɪk/
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NOUN
- 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
- a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages
How To Use Aramaic In A Sentence
- The Great Persian King Darius I announced that the official language of the western half of the Persian Empire was to be Aramaic.
- Dr. G, in the NT as in the Septuagint, it's regarded to be a calque from Hebrew and Aramaic. And now for something completely different
- The philologists claimed that Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, etc., were ‘Semitic’ languages, even though philologists could never find a parent Semitic language from which they all derived."
- But a related reason has been the focus on the historical particularity of Jesus: Jesus the Aramaic-speaking, Jewish male of the first century.
- You are forgiven, because the liturgy is still being written, and translating from Aramaic to Greek to Roman to Whatever is very error prone (throw in some Farsi and Arabic and Sanscrit, for good measure). Your Indecision | ATTACKERMAN
- The text of the canonical writings at this point was written in unpointed Hebrew (and, in a few parts, Aramaic).
- For example, "Hebrew-Aramaic words for bathroom functions in Jewish languages are typically quite euphemistic. mashtin zayn 'urinate', nekovim gedoylim and nekovim ketanim 'big holes and 'little holes', geyn af gedoylim and geyn af ketanim "to defecate' and 'to urinate' are indirect and learned ways to avoid saying kakn or shaysn and pishn. Foreign terms as convenient euphemisms
- The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, with a sprinkling of Aramaic.
- Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘raca’ an Aramaic term of contempt, is answerable to the Sanhedrin. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
- The rabbi once again mumbled some Hebrew, and some Aramaic, prayers, again explaining precisely nothing to the mourners, and again not eulogizing the deceased.
