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Ba⋅ath

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

Origin:
< Ar baʿath lit., renaissance

Related forms:
Ba⋅ath⋅ism, noun
Ba⋅ath⋅ist, noun, adjective
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Ba·ath·ist also Ba'ath·ist   (bä'ä-thĭst)   
n.  A member of a pan-Arab socialist political party active principally in Syria and Iraq.

[After the Ba'ath Party, from Arabic ba'ṯ, revival, from ba'ata, to send, evoke, awaken.]
Ba'ath·ism n.
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Word Origin & History

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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