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Aramaic

[ar-uh-mey-ik]

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Also, Aramean, Aramaean. a northwest Semitic language that from c300 b.c.–a.d. 650 was a lingua franca for nearly all of SW Asia and was the everyday speech of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine. Abbreviation: Aram Compare Biblical Aramaic.

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pertaining to Aram, or to the languages spoken there.

noting or pertaining to the alphabetical, or perhaps syllabic, script used for the writing of Aramaic from about the ninth century b.c. and from which were derived the hebrew, Arabic, Armenian, Pahlavi, Uighor, and many other scripts, probably including Brahmi.

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
1825–35; < Greek aramaî(os) of Aram + -ic, modeled on Hebraic

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Aramaic (ˌærəˈmeɪɪk)

—n
1.	See also Biblical Aramaic an ancient language of the Middle East, still spoken in parts of Syria and the Lebanon, belonging to the NW Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family. Originally the speech of Aram, in the 5th century bc it spread to become the lingua franca of the Persian empire

—*adj*
2.	of, relating to, or using this language

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Aramaic

northern branch of Sem. language group, 1834, from biblical land of Aram, roughly corresponding to modern Syria, probably related to Heb. and Aramaic rum "to be high," thus originally "highland."

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