and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root). Such abstract consonantal...

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South...

The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages...

dictionary. Q-D-Š is a triconsonantal Semitic root meaning "sacred, holy", derived from a concept central to ancient Semitic religion. From a basic verbal meaning...

dictionary. K-P-R is a Semitic root, in Arabic and Hebrew rendered as K-F-R (Arabic: ك-ف-ر; Hebrew: כ-פ-ר). The basic meaning of the root is "to cover", but...

Portrait has the author writing about Semitic root words. Arabic texts are traced back to their original Semitic root words, in reference to language and...

pronounced differently. The common NW Semitic meaning of šr is "king, prince, ruler."[clarification needed] The NW Semitic root ʾṯr (Arabic أثر‎) means "tread"...

K-B-D (Hebrew: כ-ב-ד‎; East Semitic K-B-T; Arabic: ك-ب-د) is a triliteral Semitic root with the common meaning of to "be heavy", and thence "be important;...

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triconsonantal Semitic root of many Arabic and some Hebrew words. Many of those words are used as names. The basic meaning expressed by the root is "to praise"...

Central Semitic languages are one of the three groups of West Semitic languages, alongside Modern South Arabian languages and Ethiopian Semitic languages...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Semitic languages. There is no consensus regarding the...

Phono-semantic matching Principal parts Proto-Indo-European root Radical (Chinese character) Semitic root Word family Word stem Katamba, Francis (2006). Morphology...

Ethiopian Semitic languages from the Proto-Semitic root Š-L-M. In Hebrew, words are built on "roots", generally of three consonants. When the root consonants...

name. It is of Hebrew origin חֲנוֹךְ (Ḥănōḵ), itself derived from the Semitic root חנך (ḥ-n-ḵ) meaning "to train", "initiate", "dedicate", "inaugurate"...

Ṭalāl) is an Arabic masculine given name and a surname. The name’s Proto-Semitic root is ṭ-l-l, meaning "dew". (cf. Hebrew: טל, Tal) People with the name include::...

(حَمَّدَ), meaning 'to praise', which itself comes from the triconsonantal Semitic root Ḥ-M-D. Other spellings of the name include Muhammed, Muhamad, Mohammad...

Yahweh was an ancient Semitic deity of weather and war in the ancient Levant, the national god of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, and the head of the...

sheath; small boat; sacrifice". Arthur Jeffery recognizes the same Semitic root, but believes the sense of the term to have entered Arabic through Aramaic...

social positions"; jallāb is derived from root j-l-b "to have brought, to import", ultimately from West Semitic root g-l-b "to catch, to fetch". Notable people...

origin. From the Semitic root B-R-K, it means "blessed" and is most commonly used in its feminine form Baraka(h). The Semitic root is derived from B-R-Q...

meanings. According to a theological dictionary, tehom derives from a Semitic root which denoted the sea as a non-personified entity with mythological import...

consonants to be conjugated in the manner of a standard three consonant Semitic root. In most Hebrew dialects as well as Syriac, the aleph is an absence of...

the degree to which Proto-Afroasiatic had root-and-pattern morphology, as most fully displayed in the Semitic, Egyptian, and to some degree Cushitic branches...

from Semitic languages, they are nonetheless etymologically unrelated. In Arabic, the name means "just before dawn", coming from a common Semitic root meaning...

many other forms in most of the Semitic languages stem from a common Proto-Semitic root. Unrelated to the use in Semitic languages, Malik is also a common...

the Semitic root y-š-ʕ (Hebrew: ישע), meaning "to deliver; to rescue." Likely originating in proto-Semitic (yṯ'), it appears in several Semitic personal...

wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau. The name comes from the Semitic root ר-ב-ק (r-b-q), meaning "to tie firmly"; Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament...

alphabet spelling of the name Ayman. In Arabic, it is derived from the Semitic root (ي م ن) for right, and literally means righteous, blessed or lucky. In...

Lingwa Maltija) is a Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance superstrata. It is the only Semitic language predominantly...