• Thumbnail for Sabaeans
    The Sabaeans or Sabeans were an ancient group of South Arabians. They spoke Sabaic, one of the Old South Arabian languages. They founded the kingdom of...
    17 KB (1,679 words) - 03:29, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sabaic
    Sabaic (redirect from Sabaean (language))
    sometimes referred to as Sabaean, was an Old South Arabian language that was spoken between c. 1000 BC and the 6th century AD by the Sabaeans. It was used as a...
    35 KB (3,340 words) - 03:42, 28 March 2024
  • Sabean (redirect from Sabaean)
    Sabean or Sabaean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sabean or Sabaean may refer to: Sabaeans, ancient people in South Arabia Sabaean language, Old South...
    684 bytes (120 words) - 22:14, 21 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Queen of Sheba
    Queen of Sheba (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    repeatedly mention Arab queens. Furthermore, Sabaean tribes knew the title of mqtwyt ("high official", Sabaean: 𐩣𐩤𐩩𐩥𐩺𐩩). Makada or Makueda, the personal...
    59 KB (7,112 words) - 07:27, 18 April 2024
  • state, even in the singular. (Compare the table given under Sabaean language.) Whereas Sabaean uses the preposition l- to mean "to(wards)", or to express...
    5 KB (553 words) - 01:27, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Almaqah
    Almaqah (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    Almaqah or Almuqh (Sabaean: 𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠; Arabic: المقه) was the Moon god of the ancient Yemeni kingdom of Saba'. He was also worshipped in Dʿmt and Aksum...
    4 KB (330 words) - 21:38, 18 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kebra Nagast
    Kebra Nagast (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    have its origins in multiple terms. Sabaean inscriptions mention mlkt (𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩩, "queen"); furthermore, Sabaean tribes knew the title of mqtwyt (𐩣𐩤𐩩𐩥𐩺𐩩...
    26 KB (3,349 words) - 21:22, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Damascus
    Damascus (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    the treasury of Damascus. Arabic was also established as the official language, giving the Muslim minority of the city an advantage over the Aramaic-speaking...
    126 KB (13,515 words) - 02:08, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Hadhramaut
    Kingdom of Hadhramaut (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    coalition formed by Qatabān, Radman, Maḏay, and the Arab nomads against the Sabaeans. The Ḥaḍramite king Īlʿazz Yaliṭ II, who reigned around c. 220 CE is recorded...
    16 KB (1,761 words) - 22:35, 13 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Lat
    Al-Lat (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    Thamudic; Ἀλιλάτ (Alilát) in Ancient Greek; 𐩡𐩩 (Lāt) and 𐩡𐩩𐩬 (Lātān) in Sabaean; أللاَّت ʾal-Lāt in Classical Arabic. Al-Lat was mentioned as Alilat by...
    33 KB (3,775 words) - 17:07, 14 April 2024
  • Ṣayhadic, or Yemenite) is a group of four closely related extinct languages (Sabaean/Sabaic, Qatabanic, Hadramitic, Minaic) spoken in the far southern...
    20 KB (2,064 words) - 23:47, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Aksum
    Kingdom of Aksum (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    The Kingdom of Aksum (Ge'ez: አክሱም, romanized: ʾÄksum; Sabaean: 𐩱𐩫𐩪𐩣, ʾkšm; Ancient Greek: Ἀξωμίτης, romanized: Aksōmítēs) also known as the Kingdom...
    71 KB (8,396 words) - 17:45, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Balm of Gilead
    Balm of Gilead (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    vein), with cognates in Arabic (ﺿﺮﻭ, an odoriferous tree or its gum), Sabaean (צרו), Syriac (ܙܪܘܐ, possibly fructus pini), and Greek (στύραξ, in meaning)...
    27 KB (2,865 words) - 23:08, 14 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Somali language
    region. These piece of writing are from the Semitic Himyarite and Sabaean languages that were largely spoken in what is modern day Yemen —"there is an...
    54 KB (4,811 words) - 00:54, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mihrab
    Mihrab (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    Dictionary of Old South Arabic, Sabaean Dialect. BRILL. ISBN 9789004369993. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language - mihrabs (5th ed.). Houghton...
    20 KB (2,299 words) - 13:16, 3 December 2023
  • Sabean (disambiguation), an ancient south Arabian people speaking the Sabaean language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sabian...
    680 bytes (123 words) - 09:28, 20 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Chemosh
    Chemosh (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    inscriptions and the Hebrew Bible. The name of Chemosh is attested in the Moabite language as 𐤊𐤌𐤔 (KMŠ), which was pronounced as Kamōš (/kaˈmoːʃ/). The name of...
    26 KB (2,671 words) - 08:12, 25 February 2024
  • Habesha peoples (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    According to this theory, Sabaeans brought with them South Arabian letters and language, which gradually evolved into the Ge'ez language and Ge'ez script. Linguists...
    65 KB (7,692 words) - 20:22, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geʽez
    Geʽez (redirect from Geez language)
    approximately 2000 BC. Unlike previously assumed, the Geʽez language is now not regarded as an offshoot of Sabaean or any other forms of Old South Arabian. Early inscriptions...
    65 KB (5,634 words) - 12:18, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Astarte
    Astarte (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde [Journal of Egyptian Language and Archaeology] (in German). 41–42. Leipzig, Germany: J. C. Hinrichs'sche...
    120 KB (14,591 words) - 02:40, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Qedarites
    Qedarites (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    Tiglath-Pileser III after his campaign were the Masʾaya. the Taymanites, Sabaean traders established in the Hejaz, the Ḫaipaya, the Badanaya, the Hatiaya...
    115 KB (14,214 words) - 17:39, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tayma
    Tayma (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    Taymanitic script and language were found in ruins and around the oasis. Nearby Tayma was a Sabaean trading station, where Sabaean language inscriptions were...
    18 KB (1,504 words) - 08:41, 15 March 2024
  • 'Amm (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    ʿAmm (Sabaean: 𐩲𐩣, romanized: ʿm; Arabic: عمْ) was a moon god worshipped in ancient Qataban, which was a kingdom in ancient Yemen. 'Amm's name stems...
    2 KB (203 words) - 20:12, 21 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ancient South Arabian script
    Ancient South Arabian script (category Articles containing Old South Arabian-language text)
    Al-Eryani, was keen to record a memorial in the Musnad script and in the Sabaean language, commemorating the renovation of the Ma’rib Dam in 1986, which was...
    24 KB (1,190 words) - 05:03, 15 April 2024
  • Mukarrib (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-86064-744-4. E.g. Korotayev A. Apologia for ‘the Sabaean cultural-political area’. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African...
    3 KB (331 words) - 11:11, 10 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for ʿAṯtar
    ʿAṯtar (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    manifestations of Semitic mythology. The name appears in various Semitic languages as: the feminine form Ištar (𒀭𒀹𒁯) in Akkadian; the masculine form ʿAṯtar...
    25 KB (2,523 words) - 20:31, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karib'il Watar
    Karib'il Watar (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    Karib'il Watar Yahan’m (Sabaean: 𐩫𐩧𐩨𐩱𐩡 𐩥𐩩𐩧 𐩺𐩠𐩬𐩲𐩣, romanized: Krbʾal wtr Yhn’m; fl. late 7th century BCE), sometimes distinguished as Karib'il...
    7 KB (737 words) - 21:53, 18 April 2024
  • Jabal Dabub inscription (category Articles containing Sabaean-language text)
    graffito inscription composed in a minuscule variant of the late Sabaic language and dates to the 6th century, notable for the appearance of a pre-Islamic...
    5 KB (705 words) - 02:54, 22 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ethiopians
    Ethiopians (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
    Sabaeans from Southern Arabia. However, Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia, is thought to have developed independently from the Sabaean language...
    70 KB (6,191 words) - 04:12, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zoara
    Zoara (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    and Ancient South Arabian scripts, the latter as employed for the Sabaean language. In one of them it was noted that the deceased was brought from Ẓafār...
    17 KB (2,073 words) - 14:40, 27 March 2024