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ba`ath

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Ba⋅ath

[bah-ahth]
–noun
a socialist party of some Arab countries, esp. Iraq and Syria.
Also, Baʿath, Baʿth.


Origin:
< Ar baʿath lit., renaissance


Ba⋅ath⋅ism, noun
Ba⋅ath⋅ist, noun, adjective
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Baath 
pan-Arab socialist party, founded by intellectuals in Syria in 1943, from Arabic ba't "resurrection, renaissance."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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