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Semitic people
Jumat, 2026-07-17 19:42:27

Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group formerly used in connection with ancient and modern peoples of the...

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Semitic languages
Kamis, 2026-08-06 16:46:59

of the dual pronouns, see Bar-Asher, Elitzur. 2009. "Dual Pronouns in Semitics and an Evaluation of the Evidence for their Existence in Biblical Hebrew...

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Semitic
Rabu, 2025-07-23 09:22:22

Look up semitic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Semitic most commonly refers to the Semitic languages, a name used since the 1770s to refer to the...

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Afroasiatic languages
Kamis, 2026-08-13 04:33:02

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

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Comparative Semitics
Selasa, 2026-06-23 01:00:52

Comparative Semitics is a field of comparative linguistics and philology concerning the Semitic languages. While existing as a field of study in and of...

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Ancient Semitic religion
Jumat, 2026-06-19 03:57:37

Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa. Since the term...

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Semitic religions
Senin, 2025-03-31 09:35:50

and Mandaeism. Ancient Semitic religion, polytheistic pre-Abrahamic religions practiced by Ancient Semitic peoples Semitic neopaganism, religions based...

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Northwest Semitic languages
Senin, 2026-07-27 02:16:57

Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages comprising indigenous languages of the Levant. It emerged from Proto-Semitic in the Early Bronze...

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Antisemitism
Senin, 2026-08-10 06:21:00

first by Steinschneider, who challenged Renan on account of his 'anti-Semitic prejudices' [i.e., his derogation of the Semites as a race]." Psychologist...

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Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples
Jumat, 2026-07-24 23:30:14

Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and later also...

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Proto-Semitic language
Senin, 2026-07-13 00:24:40

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

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Ethio-Semitic languages
Jumat, 2026-05-08 15:40:13

Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. They form...

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Ab (Semitic)
Senin, 2026-06-08 22:03:34

GGKEY:JB4GND7JKWT. Hodge, Carleton Taylor (2004). Afroasiatic Linguistics, Semitics, and Egyptology: Selected Writings of Carleton T. Hodge. CDL Press. p. 42...

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Antisemitic trope
Senin, 2026-08-10 23:27:01

Anti-Semitic Propaganda, Anti-Defamation League, 2001. Retrieved 12 June 2007. "The stress on Holocaust revisionism underscored the new anti-Semitic agenda...

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East Semitic languages
Minggu, 2026-05-10 16:09:46

The East Semitic languages are one of three branches of the Semitic language family. This branch is known from three languages, Akkadian, Eblaite, and...

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Abrahamic religions
Minggu, 2026-08-09 23:25:58

in Abu Dhabi built in the spirit of Abrahamic unity Abrahamites Ancient Semitic religion Din-i Ilahi Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement Chrislam Christianity...

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Phoenician alphabet
Selasa, 2026-08-11 06:51:25

alphabet proper uses 22 consonant letters—as an abjad used to write a Semitic language, it leaves vowel sounds implicit—though late varieties sometimes...

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West Semitic languages
Jumat, 2026-07-17 22:37:38

The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of Semitic languages, the other being the long-extinct East Semitic languages division. The...

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Central Semitic languages
Senin, 2026-08-10 15:50:06

The Central Semitic languages comprise one of the two groups of West Semitic languages, the other being the South Semitic languages. They are therefore...

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Semitic root
Kamis, 2026-07-16 16:09:05

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

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Charles L. Feinberg
Selasa, 2026-03-10 07:56:09

1909 – August 22, 1995) was an American biblical scholar and professor of Semitics and Old Testament. He was an authority on the Jewish history, languages...

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Semitic neopaganism
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:02:32

Semitic neopaganism is a group of religions based on or attempting to reconstruct the ancient Semitic religions, mostly practiced among Jews in the United...

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Abjad
Jumat, 2026-08-07 05:34:54

consonantal Semitic scripts such as Phoenician, Hebrew, and other Semitic proto-alphabets classified within the family of scripts used to write West Semitic languages...

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Semitism
Selasa, 2025-10-21 00:08:09

Semiticism may refer to: Semitism (linguistics), a grammatical or syntactical behaviour in a language which reveals that the influence of a Semitic language...

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Semitic romanization
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 16:46:59

Semitic romanization is the process (generally called romanization) by which Semitic languages are transliterated into the Latin alphabet. The Semitic...

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Yahweh
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:05:54

Yahweh was an ancient Semitic deity in the southeastern ancient Levant that became the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel-Samaria and Judah...

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Akkadian Empire
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:25:46

/ˈɑːkɑːd/) and its surrounding region in modern-day Iraq, the empire united the Semitic Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one rule and exercised significant...

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Modern South Arabian
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 17:50:59

The Modern South Arabian languages, also known as Eastern South Semitic languages, are a group of endangered languages spoken by small populations inhabiting...

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Siculo-Arabic
Senin, 2026-08-10 12:30:29

developed into Old Maltese Language family Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Pre-Hilalian Pre-Hilalian Tunisian Arabic...

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T
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:57:31

texts. Taw was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic Taw, the Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), Old Italic and...

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Richard C. Steiner
Selasa, 2026-05-12 18:52:17

biblical interpretation. He is now retired from his position as professor of Semitics at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University in New York...

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Atlantic (Semitic) languages
Selasa, 2026-07-28 02:26:00

Semitic or "Semitidic" (para-Semitic) origin are a disputed concept in historical linguistics put forward by Theo Vennemann. He proposed that Semitic-language-speakers...

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South Semitic languages
Kamis, 2026-06-11 12:23:55

South Semitic is a putative branch of the Semitic languages, which form a branch of the larger Afroasiatic language family, found in (North and East)...

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List of languages by total number of speakers
Selasa, 2026-08-11 03:17:23

Judith (1997). "Arabic Dialects and Maltese". In Hetzron, Robert (ed.). The Semitic Languages. Routledge. pp. 263–311. ISBN 978-0-415-05767-7. Norman, Jerry...

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D
Jumat, 2026-06-12 18:15:10

worldwide. Its name in English is dee (pronounced /ˈdiː/ ), plural dees. The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door...

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Amharic
Jumat, 2026-07-17 10:51:05

Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language...

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Ephraim Avigdor Speiser
Minggu, 2026-02-22 21:17:44

US citizen in 1926. In the United States, Speiser received his M.A. in Semitics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1923, studying under J.A. Montgomery...

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Arabic
Minggu, 2026-08-09 22:48:28

Arabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization...

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Semitic studies
Senin, 2026-03-09 00:00:48

Semitic studies, or Semitology, is the academic field dedicated to the studies of Semitic languages and literatures and the history of the Semitic-speaking...

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Akkadian language
Selasa, 2026-08-04 23:16:40

ə-KAY-dee-ən; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑(𒌝), romanized: Akkadû(m)) is an East Semitic language that is attested in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin...

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History of the alphabet
Rabu, 2026-08-05 21:51:32

have been dated back to the 2nd millennium BC among a community of West Semitic laborers in the Sinai Peninsula. Exposed to the idea of writing through...

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Alpha
Selasa, 2026-06-02 20:10:18

from the Phoenician letter aleph ⟨𐤀⟩, whose name comes from the West Semitic word for 'ox'. Letters that arose from alpha include the Latin letter ⟨A⟩...

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Indo-Semitic languages
Selasa, 2026-06-23 08:03:08

The Indo-Semitic hypothesis maintains that a genetic relationship exists between Indo-European and Semitic languages, and that the Indo-European and the...

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List of languages by number of native speakers
Selasa, 2026-07-28 07:40:05

Judith (1997). "Arabic Dialects and Maltese". In Hetzron, Robert (ed.). The Semitic Languages. Routledge. pp. 263–311. ISBN 978-0-415-05767-7. Norman, Jerry...

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Stereotypes of Jews
Selasa, 2026-08-11 19:08:00

representations of Jews, often caricatured, prejudiced and sometimes of an anti-semitic nature. Reproduced common objects, phrases, and traditions are used to...

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Tigrinya language
Rabu, 2026-07-15 05:21:19

Italian spelling rules as Tigrigna, is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is primarily...

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As-salamu alaykum
Minggu, 2026-07-26 08:04:49

least to Laqit bin Yamar al-Ayadi (6th century), and cognates in older Semitic languages—Aramaic šlāmā ʿalḵōn (ܫܠܵܡܵܐ ܥܲܠܟ݂ܘܿܢ) and Hebrew shalom aleichem...

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Canaanite religion
Senin, 2026-07-20 19:39:48

W. F. Albright, for example, says that El Shaddai is a derivation of a Semitic stem that appears in the Akkadian shadû ('mountain') and shaddā'û or shaddû'a...

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Aramaic
Jumat, 2026-08-07 10:03:56

Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai,...

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Europe
Rabu, 2026-08-12 04:03:26

between Europa's name and any form of the Semitic word is very poor", while Beekes considers a connection to Semitic languages improbable. Most major world...

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Negus
Kamis, 2026-07-02 05:06:03

Negus is the word for "king" in the Ethiopian Semitic languages and a title which was usually bestowed upon a regional ruler by the Negusa Nagast, or...

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Indo-European languages
Selasa, 2026-08-11 09:32:45

interspersed in texts that are otherwise in the unrelated Akkadian language (a Semitic language) found in texts of the Assyrian colony of Kültepe in eastern Anatolia...

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Ethiopia
Kamis, 2026-08-13 04:05:42

the Cushitic and Semitic branches; namely, local Agaw peoples and Sabaeans from Southern Arabia. However, Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia...

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James Alan Montgomery
Kamis, 2025-08-28 00:13:49

scholar, and biblical scholar who was a professor of the Old Testament and Semitics (Hebrew and Aramaic) at the Philadelphia Divinity School and the University...

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P
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:50:52

worldwide. Its name in English is pee (pronounced /ˈpiː/ ), plural pees. The Semitic Pê (mouth), as well as the Greek Π or π (Pi), and the Etruscan and Latin...

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Egypt
Rabu, 2026-08-12 12:20:46

Arabic. The current name of Egypt, Misr/Misir/Misru, stems from the Ancient Semitic name for it. The term originally connoted "Civilisation" or "Metropolis"...

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Semitic Action
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 16:00:03

Semitic Action (Hebrew: הפעולה השמית, HaPeulah Hashemit) was a small Israeli political group of the 1950s and 1960s which sought the creation of a regional...

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Paris Hilton
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:16:59

(December 4, 2014). "Anti-Semitic stalker targets Paris Hilton". The Times of Israel. "Paris Hilton – Death Threats By Anti-Semitic Crazy Man". TMZ. December...

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Myrrh
Selasa, 2026-08-11 00:48:46

Myrrh (/mɜːr/, MUR; from an unidentified ancient Semitic language, مر; from Arabic, מוֹר /mor/; from Hebrew, see § Etymology) is a gum-resin extracted...

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M
Senin, 2026-08-03 11:05:13

"water", nt; the adoption as the Semitic letter for /m/ was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic word for "water", *mā(y)-. In English...

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Syria
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:43:34

known written Semitic languages after Akkadian. Recent classifications of the Eblaite language have shown that it was an East Semitic language, closely...

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E
Rabu, 2026-07-29 07:05:38

its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter hê, which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling...

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Proto-Afroasiatic language
Rabu, 2026-07-22 03:47:44

Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the hypothetical proto-language from which all...

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Bel (mythology)
Minggu, 2026-03-15 20:52:10

as Beltis (Βελτις). Linguistically, Bel is an East Semitic form cognate with the Northwest Semitic Baal with the same meaning. Bel was especially used...

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Yemen
Rabu, 2026-08-12 03:35:34

deaf community.[citation needed] The South Semitic languages are native to Yemen. The largest South Semitic language spoken in Yemen isMehri, with roughly...

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Ras (title)
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 07:45:56

belonging to a wider Semitic titulary tradition, derived from the root r-ʾ-s, meaning “head” or “chief”, which is attested across the Semitic language family...

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Amorite language
Kamis, 2026-04-16 04:24:30

6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies. University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, 2016...

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Emeri van Donzel
Minggu, 2025-11-16 18:23:31

abroad, to Addis Abeba, the capital of Ethiopia due to his knowledge of Semitics and Sanscrit languages, as well as the Indonesian culture. One of his other...

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Athena
Kamis, 2026-08-06 14:12:10

influenced by those of Near Eastern warrior goddesses such as the East Semitic Ishtar and the Ugaritic Anat, both of whom were often portrayed bearing...

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Greek mythology
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:54:39

Anatolian culture while much of Aphrodite's iconography may spring from Semitic goddesses. There are also possible parallels between the earliest divine...

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Proto-Sinaitic script
Minggu, 2026-07-05 02:13:48

evidence; it is only with the Bronze Age collapse and the rise of new Semitic kingdoms in the Levant that Proto-Canaanite is clearly attested (Byblos...

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Baal
Minggu, 2026-08-09 13:50:05

was a title and honorific meaning "owner" or "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people...

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Bronze Age
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 16:06:32

province of the Middle Assyrian Empire. The Israelites were an ancient Semitic-speaking people of the Ancient Near East who inhabited part of Canaan during...

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Adnan (name)
Jumat, 2026-06-26 21:10:07

Adnan, an ancient ancestor of various Semitic tribes. The etymological meaning of the name is settler, from a Semitic root `dn; "to stay, abide". The literal...

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John Galliano
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:01:15

June for anti-semitic abuse. Galliano's lawyer argued that the "series of public outbursts during which he uttered racist and anti-Semitic insults in a...

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Sun
Jumat, 2026-08-07 00:36:26

of justice and a helper-deity. Later, Utu was identified with the East Semitic god Shamash. From at least the Fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the Sun...

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List of English words of Semitic origin
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:51:43

This is a list of English words of Semitic origin other than those solely of Arabic origin or Hebrew origin. Most of these words are found in ancient...

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Panorama (British TV programme)
Senin, 2026-08-10 12:11:55

key issue has been missed – the overt and frightening racist and anti-Semitic abuse and violence of the kind broadcast by Panorama is both wrong and...

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Mel Gibson
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:39:35

the original on June 13, 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2020. "Gibson's Anti-Semitic Tirade Alleged Cover Up". TMZ.com. July 28, 2006. Archived from the original...

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L
Rabu, 2026-05-27 21:28:49

ł, "L with stroke" used in Polish and many neighbouring languages 𐤋 : Semitic letter Lamedh, from which the following symbols originally derive Λ λ :...

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K
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:12:27

which was taken from the west Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open hand. This, in turn, was likely adapted by Semitic tribes who had lived in Egypt from...

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Late Bronze Age collapse
Senin, 2026-08-03 22:35:58

(see Etymology of Syria). The East Semitic-speaking polities of Ebla and the Akkadian Empire, the Northwest Semitic-speaking Amorites ("Amurru"), and the...

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Harari people
Kamis, 2026-07-09 10:47:29

(Harari: ጌይ ኡሱኣች / ݘٛىيْ أُسُأَڛْ‎, Gēy Usuach, "People of the City") is a Semitic-speaking ethnic group which inhabits the Horn of Africa. Members of this...

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QAnon
Rabu, 2026-08-12 23:15:02

"garden-variety nonsense with racist and anti-Semitic undertones" and containing "striking anti-Semitic elements". A Jewish Telegraphic Agency article...

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Maltese language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 02:42:25

or Lingwa Maltija) is a Central Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic. It is the only Semitic language officially written in the...

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Ugaritic alphabet
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:25:58

It emerged c. 1400 or 1300 BCE to write Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language and fell out of use amid the Late Bronze Age collapse c. 1190 BCE...

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O
Rabu, 2026-07-08 20:05:46

indicator Calligraphic O (𝒪, 𝓸): Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 𐤏 : Semitic letter Ayin, from which the following symbols originally derive: Ω ω :...

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Antisemitism in Europe
Jumat, 2026-08-07 14:34:23

reliable correlations between the refugee influx and the numbers of anti-Semitic attacks". In February 2019, crime data released by the government for 2018...

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Rothschild family
Rabu, 2026-08-12 15:03:07

Elders of Zion. NYU Press. p. 189. ISBN 9780814749456. ... there are anti-Semitic claims of a vast conspiracy by Jews that structurally replicate the Protocols...

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Roman Polanski
Rabu, 2026-08-12 04:14:22

Kraków was soon occupied by the German forces, and the racist and anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws made the Polańskis targets of persecution, forcing them...

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Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC)
Selasa, 2026-06-23 14:49:34

for Semitics. 6 (1): 46–56. hdl:10520/AJA10318471_285. Begg, C. (1996). "The end of King Jehoiakim: the afterlife of a problem". Journal for Semitics. 8...

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Malik
Jumat, 2026-07-31 15:35:46

Mallick, Melekh) is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic, and as M-L-K in Northwest Semitic during the Late Bronze...

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Sumer
Kamis, 2026-07-23 21:58:27

romanized: šumeru) comes from the Akkadian name for the "Sumerians", the ancient non-Semitic-speaking inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia. In their inscriptions, the...

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Jon Ossoff
Rabu, 2026-08-12 12:26:47

to be larger, which Ossoff criticized as "one of the most classic anti-Semitic tropes". Perdue's campaign said that Perdue had not seen the image and...

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Philosemitism
Senin, 2026-08-10 05:34:25

logic of 'Concerning the Jews' and all philo-Semitism leads to the anti-Semitic beliefs that the latter seeks to deflate". Philosemitic ideas have also...

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El (deity)
Rabu, 2026-07-29 15:33:15

boxes, or other symbols instead of Ugaritic alphabet. El is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one...

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Oman
Rabu, 2026-08-12 17:24:24

Over centuries, From the 2nd half of the 1st millennium BCE, waves of Semitic speaking peoples migrated from central and western Arabia to the east....

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Milky Way
Jumat, 2026-08-07 00:33:02

James, E. O. (1963). The Worship of the Sky-God: A Comparative Study in Semitic and Indo-European Religion. Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion. London...

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Canaan
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:31:55

Canaan was an ancient Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant during the late 2nd millennium BC. Canaan had significant geopolitical...

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Sacha Baron Cohen
Rabu, 2026-08-12 04:25:54

All in the Family did years ago." Regarding his portrayal as the anti-Semitic Borat, Baron Cohen says the segments are a "dramatic demonstration of how...

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Mel Brooks
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:38:48

into a bullhorn. Brooks spent time in the stockade after taking an anti-Semitic heckler's helmet off and smashing him in the head with his mess kit. His...

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H
Selasa, 2026-05-26 22:23:59

Norwegian and Swedish: hå [ˈho] Polish: ha [ˈxa] Czech: ha [ˈɦa] The original Semitic letter Heth most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative...

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Q
Kamis, 2026-08-13 03:37:31

pronounced /ˈkjuː/ , most commonly spelled cue, but also kew, kue, and que. The Semitic sound value of Qôp was /q/ (voiceless uvular stop), and the form of the...

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Fred Trump
Senin, 2026-06-15 05:01:19

Frank alleges was anti-Semitic. Fred Jr.'s daughter, Mary L. Trump, later also claimed her grandfather was "quite anti-Semitic". As U.S. president, Donald...

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Babylonian
Selasa, 2021-12-28 04:03:11

to: Babylon, a Semitic Akkadian city/state of ancient Mesopotamia founded in 1894 BC Babylonia, an ancient Akkadian-speaking Semitic nation-state and...

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Weaponization of antisemitism
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:05:45

phase in Zionist propaganda" in which "to be anti-Zionist was to be anti-Semitic". Propaganda theorist Noam Chomsky has written that, although Sykes traced...

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Jerusalem
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:26:09

variously etymologised to mean 'foundation of the god Shalem', from the Semitic root yry which can mean 'to found, to lay a cornerstone' and is used that...

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Shalom
Minggu, 2026-03-29 01:39:16

Shlama in Neo-Aramaic dialects, and sälam in Ethiopian Semitic languages from the Proto-Semitic root Š-L-M. In Hebrew, words are built on "roots", generally...

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South Semitic scripts
Jumat, 2025-09-26 02:36:48

The South Semitic scripts are a cluster of alphabets that had derived from the Proto-Sinaitic script by the 10th century BC. The family has two main branches:...

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Š-L-M
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 20:01:08

Š-L-M is a triconsonantal root of many Semitic words (many of which are used as names). The root meaning translates to "whole, safe, intact, unharmed...

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Soqotri language
Kamis, 2026-06-18 02:49:51

lack of research in Soqotri language field is not only related to the semitics, but to the Soqotri folklore heritage conservation. This isolated island...

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Dead Sea Scrolls
Senin, 2026-08-10 22:13:27

fragments. In partnership with the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center and West Semitic Research, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory successfully worked to expand...

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Russell Crowe
Kamis, 2026-08-13 02:00:02

whose library had been damaged as a result of arson. A note with an anti-Semitic message had been left at the scene. Crowe called school officials to express...

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Akkadian
Jumat, 2021-09-24 19:38:57

inhabitants of the Akkadian Empire Akkadian language, an extinct Eastern Semitic language Akkadian literature, literature in this language Akkadian cuneiform...

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Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC)
Minggu, 2026-06-14 21:25:31

for Semitics. 6 (1): 46–56. hdl:10520/AJA10318471_285. Begg, C. (1996). "The end of King Jehoiakim: the afterlife of a problem". Journal for Semitics. 8...

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Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions
Selasa, 2026-06-09 01:47:08

The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, are the primary extra-Biblical sources for understanding of the...

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Nazism
Minggu, 2026-08-09 07:11:44

masses along with it. And these leaders, they see that behind them the anti-Semitic wave grows and grows; and when the masses once recognize the facts, that...

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Malik (name)
Minggu, 2026-08-02 02:04:29

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...

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Hamites
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 11:41:39

Afroasiatic language family, which, together with the Semitic branch, was formerly labelled "Hamito-Semitic". Because the three Hamitic branches have not been...

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Michael Douglas
Minggu, 2026-08-02 21:31:05

2025. Hutchison, Bill (March 16, 2015). "Michael Douglas reveals anti-Semitic attack on 14-year-old son Dylan in Europe". New York Daily News. Archived...

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Bet (letter)
Kamis, 2026-05-28 02:36:50

Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt 𐤁, Hebrew bēt ב, Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Syriac bēṯ ܒ and Arabic...

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Shin (letter)
Minggu, 2026-08-09 06:10:34

Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first and penultimate letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician šīn 𐤔, Hebrew šīn ש, Aramaic šīn 𐡔, Syriac...

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Allah
Jumat, 2026-07-31 22:50:13

al-ilāh (الاله, lit. 'the god') and is linguistically related to other Semitic God names, such as Aramaic (ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ ʼAlāhā) and Hebrew (אֱלוֹהַּ ʾĔlōah)...

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Yodh
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:15:33

Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician yōd 𐤉, Hebrew yod י, Aramaic yod 𐡉, Syriac yōḏ...

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Papaver umbonatum
Senin, 2026-07-27 01:14:20

family Papaveraceae. This species is also known more commonly as bossed or Semitic poppy. It is often misidentified as Papaver rhoeas (corn poppy, common...

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Jordan
Kamis, 2026-07-30 22:47:38

'big river', the Nile), it is most plausible that it derives from the Semitic word 'Yarad' ( ירד ; 'flow down' or 'descend"), referring to the river's...

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Winona Ryder
Minggu, 2026-08-02 00:34:59

William (June 23, 2020). "Winona Ryder Accuses Mel Gibson of Making Anti-Semitic and Homophobic Remarks". Variety. Retrieved April 14, 2021. Giles, Jeff...

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Tunisia
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:45:31

antiquity, Tunisia was inhabited by the indigenous Berbers. The Phoenicians, a Semitic people, began to arrive in the 12th century BC, settling on the coast and...

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Canaanite languages
Minggu, 2026-07-26 18:43:31

referred to as Canaanite dialects, are one of four subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages of Western Asia. The others are the still spoken Aramaic and...

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Babylonia
Minggu, 2026-07-19 21:03:08

the written Akkadian language for official use, despite its Northwest Semitic-speaking Amorite founders and Kassite successors, who spoke a language...

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Pogrom
Jumat, 2026-08-07 08:43:32

minority". However, Bergmann adds that in Western usage, the word's "anti-Semitic overtones" have been retained. Historian David Engel supports this view...

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Modern Hebrew
Selasa, 2026-08-11 03:15:16

language spoken today. It is the only extant Canaanite language of the Semitic language family, as well as one of the oldest attested languages to be...

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Suffix
Jumat, 2026-06-26 11:06:15

derivation and class-maintaining derivation. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, suffixes are called affirmatives, as they can alter the form...

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German Reform Party
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 15:16:49

The German Reform Party (German: Deutsche Reformpartei or DRP) was a far-right political party active in the German Empire. It had antisemitism as its...

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J
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 14:06:00

Cyrillic alphabet for the same purpose. The Maltese language, though a Semitic language, has been deeply influenced by the Romance languages (especially...

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Z
Minggu, 2026-07-05 01:17:18

common. In Esperanto the name of the letter Z is pronounced /zo/. The Semitic symbol was the seventh letter, named zayin, which meant "weapon" or "sword"...

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Ulysses (novel)
Jumat, 2026-08-07 04:28:36

of the novel's Homeric parallels. Bérard's theory that The Odyssey had Semitic roots accords with Joyce's reincarnation of Odysseus as the Jewish Leopold...

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R
Kamis, 2026-08-13 03:36:34

image of a head, used in Semitic alphabets for the sound /r/ because the word for 'head' was rêš or similar in most Semitic languages. The word became...

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Mesopotamia
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:51:33

was Sumerian, an agglutinative language isolate. Along with Sumerian, Semitic languages were also spoken in early Mesopotamia. Subartuan, a language...

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Septuagint
Rabu, 2026-08-05 13:11:55

written in Koine Greek. Some sections contain Semiticisms, which are idioms and phrases based on Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Aramaic. Other books...

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Sin (letter)
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:20:53

(corresponding to the 15th letter Phoenician letter Samekh). Based on Semitic linguistics, Samekh has no surviving descendant in the Arabic alphabet...

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Hebrew language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 10:24:05

Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by...

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Romania
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:49:15

centrifugal forces by appointing nationalist governments that adopted anti-Semitic measures, such as the Goga cabinet and the one led by the Orthodox Patriarch...

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Abu Dhabi
Kamis, 2026-08-06 19:20:02

the international games in 2017. Some referred to this action as anti-Semitic. The ban on Israeli symbols was lifted in 2018 and Israeli flag and the...

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Ice Cube
Jumat, 2026-08-07 06:14:43

Kaufman, Gil (June 2020). "Ice Cube criticized for posting string of anti-semitic images and conspiracy theories". Billboard. Archived from the original...

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Israeli antisemitic cartoons contest
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 23:26:38

The Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest (Hebrew: תחרות קריקטורות אנטישמיות ישראלית) was a cartoon contest initiated by two Israeli artists in response...

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N
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 13:20:19

It is speculated by some, such as archeologist Douglas Petrovich, that Semitic speakers working in Egypt adapted hieroglyphs to create the first alphabet...

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Aphrodite
Minggu, 2026-08-09 20:40:39

been derived from the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. Aphrodite's...

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Pe (Semitic letter)
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 04:14:33

Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic fāʾ ف‎, Aramaic pē 𐡐, Hebrew pē פ, Phoenician pē 𐤐, and Syriac pē ܦ. (in abjadi...

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Eritrea
Selasa, 2026-08-11 10:17:31

speak languages from the Afroasiatic family, either from the Ethiopian Semitic languages or Cushitic branches. In Eritrea, ethnic Tigrinyas make up about...

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Haitham
Rabu, 2026-04-08 20:46:41

from the ancient Semitic triliteral root H‑Y‑TH, associated in Arabic with a young eagle or hawk, with underlying roots in Proto‑Semitic meanings related...

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Geʽez script
Jumat, 2026-07-31 19:35:41

has been adapted to write other languages, mostly Ethiopian and Eritrean Semitic, particularly Amharic in Ethiopia, and Tigrinya in both Eritrea and Ethiopia...

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Enki
Rabu, 2026-07-22 19:40:22

fully assimilated to Ea, a god whose name is of unknown, but possibly semitic origin. They were already syncretized with each other in parts of Babylonia...

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Alice Walker
Senin, 2026-08-10 06:48:15

admiration for Icke and his book, saying: "I do not believe he is anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish". Walker argued that any "attempt to smear David Icke, and...

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Greek alphabet
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:34:34

very similar and sometimes identical to the West Semitic letters. 4 The letter sequence between the Semitic and Greek alphabets is identical. (Naveh 1982)"...

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B
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 13:48:07

level. In chemistry, B is the symbol for boron, a chemical element. 𐤁 : Semitic letter Bet, from which the following symbols originally derive Β β : Greek...

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Jim Caviezel
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:24:24

controversy that erupted over The Passion, including accusations of anti-Semitic undertones, Caviezel said, "It's been the most frustrating thing to watch...

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Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
Rabu, 2026-03-25 01:54:12

The Lidzbarski Gold Medal for Semitic Philology is awarded annually by the German Oriental Society for work in Semitic studies and named in after Mark...

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Self-hating Jew
Rabu, 2026-08-12 16:34:00

rhetoric of antisemitism: "criticism of subgroups of Jews which drew on anti-Semitic rhetoric were common in 19th and 20th century arguments over Jewish identity"...

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Crusades
Senin, 2026-08-10 22:54:00

3 May 1096. Despite episcopal efforts at protection, his force spread anti-semitic violence until Hungarian troops dispersed it in mid-July. Walter reached...

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Ancient Egypt
Minggu, 2026-08-02 03:08:37

is a northern Afro-Asiatic language closely related to the Berber and Semitic languages. The Ancient Egyptian language likewise shared linguistic ties...

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Language family
Rabu, 2026-08-05 02:48:58

and Entropy: An Alternative Model of Linguistic Evolution Applied to Semitic Linguistics. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998. Print. Georg, Stefan, Peter...

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Y
Senin, 2026-08-03 04:28:20

form respectively. The oldest direct ancestor of the letter Y was the Semitic letter waw (pronounced as [w]), from which also come F, U, V, and W. See...

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Punic language
Selasa, 2026-07-21 11:56:05

Phoenician language, a Canaanite language of the Northwest Semitic branch of the Semitic languages. An offshoot of the Phoenician language of coastal...

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Persian language
Senin, 2026-08-10 19:01:36

Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic. London: RoutledgeCurzon. pp. 79–96. ISBN 0-415-30804-6. Thackston...

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Muslims
Selasa, 2026-08-11 16:30:10

World Civilizations, 5th ed., p. 371. Entry for šlm, p. 2067, Appendix B: Semitic Roots, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed...

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Subhas Chandra Bose
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 21:56:02

its inhabitants. Bose's anti-Jewish slur was no different from the anti-Semitic remarks in the League deliberations referred to earlier. Bose also opposed...

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Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Selasa, 2026-08-04 20:41:30

of Canaanite (Semitic) descent, owing to the foreign origins of the names of some of their rulers and princes, like Ipqu (West Semitic for "grace"), Yakbim...

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Gary Oldman
Rabu, 2026-07-22 12:01:11

original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020. "ADL Condemns Anti-Semitic Remark by Actor Gary Oldman". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 20 March...

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Roald Dahl
Minggu, 2026-08-09 12:51:46

make readers "violently anti-Israeli", at the time saying, "I am not anti-Semitic. I am anti-Israel." In 1990, Dahl spoke again on the Lebanon invasion,...

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Tsade
Kamis, 2026-08-13 03:00:40

ṣādē, ṣaddi, ṣad, tzadi, sadhe, tzaddik) is the eighteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ṣādē 𐤑, Hebrew ṣādī צ, Aramaic ṣāḏē 𐡑, Syriac...

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I
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 16:45:18

Egyptological yod Ɪ ɪ : Small capital I ꟾ : Long I ꟷ : Sideways I 𐤉 : Semitic letter Yodh, from which the following symbols originally derive: Ι ι: Greek...

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Berbers
Selasa, 2026-08-11 22:33:10

with predominantly pastoral elements. For their part, the Phoenicians (Semitic-speaking Canaanites) came from perhaps the most advanced multicultural...

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Mem
Selasa, 2026-06-09 01:42:34

Mem (also spelled Meem, Meme, or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew mēm מ, Aramaic mem 𐡌, Syriac mīm ܡ, Arabic mīm...

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Fox News
Rabu, 2026-08-12 18:41:54

Beck regularly described Soros as a "puppet-master" and used common anti-Semitic tropes to describe Soros and his activities. In a 2010 three-part series...

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Lisbon
Rabu, 2026-08-12 23:08:08

but not before the expropriation of their property. In 1506, an anti-semitic movement among the Old Christians of Lisbon culminated in a massacre lasting...

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Philistines
Selasa, 2026-08-04 02:39:14

synthesized with the local Canaanite dialect continuum of the Northwest Semitic languages. There is evidence to suggest that the Philistine identity began...

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Abjad numerals
Rabu, 2026-05-27 03:20:30

(A-B-G-D) of the Semitic alphabet, including the Aramaic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Phoenician alphabet, and other scripts for Semitic languages. These...

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Rashida Tlaib
Senin, 2026-08-10 09:58:55

that "the Capitol grounds should not be a pedestal to legitimize anti-Semitic bigotry". Tlaib responded the criticism by noting that organizations such...

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SS Lazio
Minggu, 2026-08-09 10:39:32

the Tiger, Arkan". In 1998, Lazio supporters displayed an openly anti‑Semitic banner during the Derby della Capitale against AS Roma, reading "Auschwitz...

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Moses
Rabu, 2026-07-22 00:38:54

[מְשִׁיתִֽהוּ, mǝšīṯīhū] of the water'." This explanation links it to the Semitic root משׁה, m-š-h, meaning "to draw out". The eleventh-century Tosafist...

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God
Senin, 2026-08-03 21:09:48

El, which also as a proper noun referred to the chief deity in ancient Semitic religions. In the Hebrew Bible, God is also given a personal name, Yahweh...

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Sanskrit
Rabu, 2026-08-12 23:15:54

presumptive Semitic prototype, perhaps under the influence of a preexisting Indian tradition of phonetic analysis. However, the Semitic hypothesis is...

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Benno Jacob
Minggu, 2026-06-14 18:14:28

Benno Jacob was a scholarly liberal rabbi (with a University degree in Semitics) in Germany until World War II. Before leaving Germany, he produced a monumental...

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Israeli apartheid
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:10:58

racism and apartheid"—and that "Accusing Israel of apartheid is not anti-Semitic. It describes reality". Klein gave an interview to Die Welt on 5 August...

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Samekh
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 20:55:26

the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵ ס, Aramaic samek 𐡎, and Syriac semkaṯ ܣ. Samekh is the only letter of the Semitic abjad...

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Kassites
Selasa, 2026-06-23 08:57:06

languages, it is regarded as a language isolate and is not accepted to be Semitic or Indo-European. The Kassite religion is also poorly understood, though...

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Neo-Hittite states
Rabu, 2026-05-27 15:37:55

Indo-European languages and Aramaic belonging to the Northwest Semitic group of Semitic languages. Several questions related to the regional grouping of...

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Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
Selasa, 2026-06-30 22:06:49

interpreted as a Star of David and the tweet denounced as "blatantly anti-semitic" by many observers, ranging from the Hillary Clinton campaign to the Anti-Defamation...

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Adrammelech
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 02:50:53

romanized: ʾAḏrammeleḵ; Koine Greek: Ἀδραμέλεχ Adramélekh) is an ancient Semitic god mentioned briefly by name in the Book of Kings, where he is described...

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Andy Samberg
Senin, 2026-08-10 00:05:29

Favorite TV Shows". NBC News. NBC. Retrieved April 3, 2018. "Andy Samberg's Semitic Appeal". momentmag.com. June 7, 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2018. Salter...

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Dracula
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 15:22:02

February 2025. Renshaw, Daniel (2022). "'A fine fellow ... although rather Semitic': Jews and Antisemitism in Jules Verne's Le Château des Carpathes and Bram...

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Coffee
Rabu, 2026-08-12 18:04:53

bean, which are known in Arabic as bunn and in Cushitic languages as būn. Semitic languages have the root qhh, 'dark color', which became a natural designation...

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Classification of Arabic languages
Jumat, 2026-05-29 02:58:41

position of Arabic within the group of Semitic languages has long been an active area of research. Historically, the Semitic languages originated in a relatively...

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Louis Farrakhan
Minggu, 2026-08-02 16:06:11

anti-Semitic speech". The Hill. Retrieved December 11, 2019. Tatum, Sophie (March 1, 2018). "Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan delivers anti-Semitic speech"...

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House
Minggu, 2026-08-02 06:10:37

The term house itself gave rise to the letter 'B' through an early Proto-Semitic hieroglyphic symbol depicting a house. The symbol was called "bayt", "bet"...

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Nick Cannon
Senin, 2026-08-10 21:33:40

Cannon was terminated due to his promotion of "hateful speech and ... anti-Semitic conspiracy theories". Two days later, Cannon released an apology only for...

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Brahmi script
Rabu, 2026-07-29 00:56:29

proposed Semitic origins of the script, instead stating that the interaction between the Indic and the Semitic worlds before the rise of the Semitic scripts...

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Maltese
Rabu, 2025-09-10 06:36:22

Maltese alphabet Maltese cuisine Maltese culture Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people Maltese people, people from Malta or...

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Ernest Renan
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:25:32

February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist...

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Gustav Mahler
Selasa, 2026-08-11 04:08:26

secure the post—experienced regular opposition and hostility from the anti-Semitic press. Nevertheless, his innovative productions and insistence on the highest...

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S
Kamis, 2026-07-16 13:11:05

Its name in English is ess (pronounced /ˈɛs/ ), plural esses. Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ (as in 'ship')....

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Geʽez
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 19:19:30

to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic, is an ancient South Semitic language. The language originates from what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea...

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Rebecca (given name)
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 10:26:07

Rebecca, 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...

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Assyrians
Rabu, 2026-08-12 02:07:48

ancient Assyria. They speak varieties of Neo-Aramaic, a branch of the Semitic language family that replaced Akkadian during the Neo-Assyrian Empire,...

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South Arabia
Kamis, 2026-08-06 01:38:03

and the unrelated Modern South Arabian languages, both members of the Semitic family. The term Yamnat was mentioned in Old South Arabian inscriptions...

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K-B-D
Jumat, 2026-03-06 22:56:15

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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Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Kamis, 2026-06-25 21:28:29

indicating a very large degree of a particular quality (called elative in Semitic linguistics). Comparatives and superlatives may be formed in morphology...

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Š
Jumat, 2026-08-07 04:38:57

Akkadian orthography) the Hittite /s/ phoneme, as well as the /ʃ/ phoneme of Semitic languages, transliterating shin (Phoenician and its descendants), the direct...

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Anatolian languages
Selasa, 2026-08-11 02:18:24

Luwian survived until the conquest of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms by the Semitic Assyrian Empire, and alphabetic inscriptions in Anatolian languages are...

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Babylon
Senin, 2026-08-10 09:04:45

the Semitic name was a loan-translation of the original Sumerian name. However, the "gate of god" interpretation is increasingly viewed as a Semitic folk...

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Henry Ford
Rabu, 2026-07-29 13:50:31

Barkun observed: "That Cameron would have continued to publish such anti-Semitic material without Ford's explicit instructions seemed unthinkable to those...

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Tehom
Rabu, 2026-06-17 20:25:37

Tehom (Hebrew: תְּהוֹם təhôm) is a Northwest Semitic and Biblical Hebrew word meaning "the deep" or "abyss" (literally "the deeps"). It is used to describe...

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Ugarit
Minggu, 2026-08-02 18:07:16

alphabet. Ugaritic texts were written in a previously unknown Northwest Semitic tongue—the Ugaritic language. Archaeological excavations of Ugarit show...

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Martin Luther
Kamis, 2026-07-23 21:24:22

NY: Cornell University Press, 1983, 139; Gritsch, Eric. "Was Luther Anti-Semitic?", Christian History, No. 3:39, 12.; Kittelson, James M., Luther the Reformer...

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Middle East
Senin, 2026-08-03 10:57:45

neighbouring Middle Eastern non-Arab countries. It is a member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Several Modern South Arabian languages...

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Pope Benedict XVI
Rabu, 2026-08-12 12:54:31

"Williamson's Colleagues Under Fire: SSPX in Germany Criticized over Anti-Semitic Statements" Der Spiegel. 10 February 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2009. WebCitation...

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Greek language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 22:59:21

entered the language, mainly from Latin, Venetian, Ottoman Turkish and Semitic languages. During the older periods of Greek, loanwords into Greek acquired...

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Damascus
Senin, 2026-08-10 08:33:12

documented as an important city during the arrival of the Aramaeans, a Semitic people, in the 11th century BC. By the start of the first millennium BC...

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Ilhan Omar
Senin, 2026-08-10 00:17:37

reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used". In September 2019, Omar condemned Benjamin Netanyahu's...

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Hamas
Rabu, 2026-08-12 23:58:52

out effective and indiscriminate stabbing and shooting attacks; and anti-Semitic cartoons as a central means of dehumanizing the Israeli/Jew in the Palestinian...

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Deutsche Welle
Kamis, 2026-07-30 06:06:23

for unlawful termination, ruling that her Facebook posts were not anti-semitic. Also in September 2022, Deutsche Welle updated its Code of Conduct to...

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Śawt
Senin, 2026-08-03 23:51:24

from a Proto-Semitic voiceless lateral fricative *ś [ɬ], like the Welsh pronunciation of the ll in llwyd. It survived only in South Semitic as an independent...

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Levant
Minggu, 2026-07-05 21:00:39

ancient DNA studies, Levantines derive most of their ancestry from ancient Semitic-speaking peoples of the Bronze and Iron age Levant. Other Arabs include...

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Sargon of Akkad
Senin, 2026-07-27 18:43:42

Isaiah 20:1. The first element in the name is šarru, the Akkadian (East Semitic) for "king" (cf. Hebrew śar שַׂר). The second element is derived either...

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The Passion of the Christ
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:24:15

Bernard of the New York Daily News felt it was "the most virulently anti-Semitic movie made since the German propaganda films of World War II". In the Dallas...

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Dwyane Wade
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 16:26:48

Vigdor, Neil (July 15, 2020). "ViacomCBS Fires Nick Cannon, Citing Anti-Semitic Podcast Remarks". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 15...

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Balsam
Kamis, 2026-06-04 23:48:33

Balsam (from Latin: balsamum "gum of the balsam tree", ultimately from a Semitic source such as Hebrew: בֹּשֶׂם, romanized: bośem, lit. 'spice, perfume')...

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Assyrian language
Jumat, 2025-10-10 08:15:47

ancient East Semitic Akkadian language In modern Assyrian terminology, related to Neo-Aramaic languages: Suret language, a modern West Semitic language that...

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German Social Party (German Empire)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 08:44:40

The German Social Party (German: Deutschsoziale Partei or DSP) was a far-right political party active in the German Empire. The group was established in...

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LVMH
Minggu, 2026-07-05 17:02:14

'anti-semitic rant'". Telegraph. 1 March 2011. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2021. "John Galliano anti-Semitic rant...

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Alan S. Kaye
Jumat, 2026-08-07 00:43:07

S. Alan, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001 Afroasiatic Linguistics, Semitics, and Egyptology: Selected Writings of Carleton T. Hodge, Co-edited with...

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Phoenicia
Selasa, 2026-08-04 02:45:22

The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic people who inhabited city-states in Canaan along the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily in...

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Sodom and Gomorrah
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:31:51

According to Burton MacDonald, the Hebrew term for Gomorrah was based on the Semitic root ʿ-m-r, which means "be deep, copious (water)". They are known in Hebrew...

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Qoph
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 07:20:12

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician qōp 𐤒, Hebrew qūp̄ ק, Aramaic qop 𐡒, Syriac...

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Martin Sheen
Senin, 2026-08-10 02:15:01

in front of us ... we were little boys and they were abusive ... anti-Semitic .... And they, for the most part, were upstanding members of the community...

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Ammon
Senin, 2026-06-22 22:34:45

Siran inscription. Linguistic and historical implications". Journal for Semitics. 1 (1): 108–117. Tyson, Craig W. (2019). "The Religion of the Ammonites:...

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Attack on Titan
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 11:23:37

full of anti-Korean, nationalist, pro-Japan subtext, parallels to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and subtextual references to Nazi Germany […] when...

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G
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 13:51:58

voiced uvular plosive. Unit prefix G, meaning 1,000,000,000 times. 𐤂 : Semitic letter Gimel, from which the following symbols originally derive C c :...

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Eblaite language
Senin, 2026-06-08 06:20:58

also known as Eblan by ISO 639-3), or Palaeosyrian, is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC in Northern Syria. It was named...

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Star of Ishtar
Kamis, 2025-10-30 03:12:56

Mesopotamian symbol of the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna and her East Semitic counterpart Ishtar. The owl was also one of Ishtar's primary symbols. Ishtar...

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Happy Merchant
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:55:26

symbol "The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image". BuzzFeed News. February 5, 2015. p. 11. Archived from the original...

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Philistine language
Minggu, 2026-05-10 08:08:47

immigrant Philistines originated among "sea peoples". There are hints of non-Semitic vocabulary and onomastics, but the inscriptions are enigmatic: a number...

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Aluf
Kamis, 2026-02-19 00:11:56

55:13, where it is used as a general term for teacher. It comes from a Semitic root meaning "thousand," making an ’allup̄ the one who commands a thousand...

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Pashtuns
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:09:15

traced on the basis of a homologous group. And Haplogroup J2 is from the Semitic population, and this haplogroup is found in 6.5% of Greeks and Pashtuns...

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Odinist Community of Spain – Ásatrú
Jumat, 2026-08-07 20:38:54

and twists the Germanic heritage of Spain, preferring instead an "Afro-Semitic" version of history, which the COE describes as a "pseudo-historical story"...

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Hans-Jürgen Sasse
Selasa, 2026-05-05 00:44:56

2015) was a German linguist. Sasse studied linguistics, Indo-European, Semitics and Balkanology at the Free University of Berlin, the Aristotle University...

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2018 Berlin antisemitic attack
Rabu, 2026-06-17 17:22:24

Tagesspiegel, 20 April 2018 Attacker in anti-Semitic video turns himself in to police, DW.com, 19 April 2018 "Anti-Semitic crimes increase dramatically in Germany"...

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Tila Tequila
Senin, 2026-08-10 10:37:38

August 29, 2015. "Tila Tequila Kicked Off Celebrity Big Brother For Anti-Semitic Comments". People. Archived from the original on April 12, 2022. Retrieved...

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Christians
Rabu, 2026-07-29 20:56:25

Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh by Ali ibn al-Athir. In the Maltese language, a Semitic European language related to Arabic written in the Latin alphabet, Christians...

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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:18:58

correspondence is replete with anti-Semitic statements. According to Edward Renehan: As fiercely anti-Communist as they were anti-Semitic, Kennedy and Astor looked...

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W
Rabu, 2026-07-15 10:54:41

where he spent much of his childhood. W stands for work in physics. 𐤅: Semitic letter Waw, from which the following symbols originally derive: U: Latin...

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Jewish magic
Rabu, 2026-08-05 17:05:49

concerns the use of magic Semitic neopaganism, a group of religions based on or attempting to reconstruct the ancient Semitic religions Witchcraft and...

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Isaac
Minggu, 2026-08-09 10:46:48

Qur'an 37:99, Qur'an 37:99–113): Issues in qur'anic exegesis", Journal of Semitic Studies XXX1V/ Spring 1989 Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Isaac" . Catholic...

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Zodiac
Minggu, 2026-06-07 04:33:49

of the Sumerian, Accadian, Assyrian, and West Semitic calendars". Babylonian menologies and the Semitic calendars (PDF). The Schweich Lectures of the...

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Isogloss
Selasa, 2026-07-07 17:50:53

ancient Northwest Semitic languages is w becoming y at the beginning of a word. Thus, in Proto-Semitic and subsequent non-Northwest Semitic languages and...

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Misan Harriman
Senin, 2026-08-10 20:20:03

Rayner, Gordon (8 June 2026). "Southbank chief in fresh row over 'anti-Semitic' conspiracy theory". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 August 2026. Eastham...

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Accusative case
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:45:04

Turkic languages, in Dravidian languages like Malayalam and Tamil, and in Semitic languages (such as Arabic). Some Balto-Finnic languages, such as Finnish...

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C
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 12:39:08

of the name gimel. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history...

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Anatolia
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:16:34

of Anatolia, such as the Hattians, who were neither Indo-European nor Semitic, were gradually absorbed by the incoming Indo-European Anatolian peoples...

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Paul Stanley
Senin, 2026-07-13 06:34:40

Retrieved October 21, 2014. "Paul Stanley: Former KISS members were anti-Semitic". Fox News. April 8, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2014. "Lordi Posts New...

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Aramaism
Jumat, 2026-04-03 07:41:53

linguistic feature that originates from Aramaic (one of the Northwest Semitic languages) and appears in another language (particularly Hebrew or Arabic)...

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Tunic
Senin, 2026-08-10 18:43:07

garments that covered wearers' waists. The term is likely borrowed from a Semitic word *kittan with metathesis. The word khiton (Ancient Greek: χῐτών) is...

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Hannibal
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:21:33

replied "either Alexander or Pyrrhus, then myself". Hannibal was a common Semitic Phoenician-Carthaginian personal name. It is recorded in Carthaginian sources...

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Carthage
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:44:27

originated in the Mediterranean coast of the Levant. They spoke Canaanite, a Semitic language, and followed a local variety of the ancient Canaanite religion...

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Norman Finkelstein
Minggu, 2026-08-09 14:13:37

the German people, that "Germans overwhelmingly condemned the Nazi anti-Semitic atrocities", and that Goldhagen's book was successful because of its Zionist...

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Dan Crenshaw
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:53:02

Israel. During some of his public appearances, he has been targeted by anti-semitic white nationalists, known as Groypers, for his pro-Israel views. He voted...

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Geers's law
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 23:20:48

inherited Semitic roots whose emphatics were usually dissimilated. Compare: Proto-Semitic *ṣ̂bṭ > Akkadian ṣabātu "to seize" Proto-Semitic *ḳṭn > Akkadian...

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Zayin
Kamis, 2026-06-11 10:52:39

(also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician zayn 𐤆, Hebrew zayīn ז, Aramaic zain 𐡆,...

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Fortnight
Minggu, 2026-07-05 12:27:23

quinzaine in French, and chenzină in Romanian, all meaning "a grouping of 15". Semitic languages have a "doubling suffix". When added at the end of the word for...

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AC Sparta Prague
Rabu, 2026-08-12 21:18:16

debate. In the 1990s, the chant "Jude Slavia" became a recurring anti-Semitic chant at Sparta Prague games in the 1990s. In 2007, Sparta's then-captain...

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Moabite language
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 19:30:06

or dialect of the Canaanite languages, themselves a branch of Northwest Semitic languages, formerly spoken in the region described in the Bible as Moab...

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Classical Arabic
Minggu, 2026-06-28 01:06:34

Arabic is considered a conservative language among Semitic languages; it preserved the complete Proto-Semitic three grammatical cases and declension (ʾIʿrab)...

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Lemba people
Rabu, 2026-07-08 14:47:59

and scholarly attention about the Lemba's common partial descent from Semitic peoples of West Asia. Genetic Y-DNA analyses have established a paternal...

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Arwe
Selasa, 2026-04-07 13:48:44

Tauris. p. 41. Ullendorff, Edward (1956). "The Contribution of South Semitics to Hebrew Lexicography". Vetus Testamentum. 6 (2): 190–198. doi:10.2307/1515723...

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Gilgamesh
Selasa, 2026-07-28 01:07:05

Confronted by Humbaba, Gilgamesh panics and prays to Shamash (the East Semitic name for Utu), who blows eight winds in Humbaba's eyes, blinding him. Humbaba...

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Suret language
Jumat, 2026-07-31 03:20:33

Neo-Aramaic Dialects in: Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Studies in Semitics and General Linguistics Honor of Gideon Goldenberg, (334) 2007, pp. 147–157...

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8
Selasa, 2026-05-26 10:32:50

is mostly used to refer to eight siblings delivered in one birth. The Semitic numeral is based on a root *θmn-, whence Akkadian smn-, Arabic ṯmn-, Hebrew...

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Candace Owens
Senin, 2026-08-10 10:49:47

Australian and New Zealand governments to deny Owens entry due to her anti-Semitic views and remarks. Annetta Able, who survived Mengele's experiments, said...

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List of British Jewish entertainers
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:07:47

in Nazi Germany. In the early 1930s, the Imperial Fascist League's anti-semitic newspaper The Fascist sought to isolate the Jews in British cinema. Stephen...

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Aaron D. Rubin
Minggu, 2026-07-05 20:19:15

Grammaticalization". Some of Rubin's most significant contributions to the field of Semitics have been focused on the Modern South Arabian languages of Oman. His books...

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Ben Shapiro
Rabu, 2026-08-05 05:35:11

additionally stated that Hamas's rocket attacks "would entail an anti-Semitic genocide", adding that Hamas was spending "tens of millions of dollars...

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Gore Vidal
Minggu, 2026-07-12 16:24:45

William F. Buckley, Jr." and said that Buckley was "anti-black", "anti-semitic" and a "warmonger". Buckley sued Vidal for libel. The feud continued in...

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Kama Sutra
Kamis, 2026-07-23 22:03:32

difficult to find in the ancient world outside India. Especially in the Semitic world, it is unimaginable. If any knowledge is recognized by the Rishi...

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Honorary Aryan
Senin, 2026-08-03 16:58:36

Nürnberger Gesetzen [Arbitrariness in arbitrariness:Exemptions from the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws] (PDF) (in German). Institut fûr Zeitgeschichte. Den Begriff...

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Koine Greek grammar
Senin, 2025-07-14 13:48:06

ratio of καί to δέ at the beginning of sentences is higher, influenced by Semitic languages. τότε 'then' as a common narrative conjunction reflects Aramaic...

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Fertile Crescent
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:14:09

a non-Semitic language isolate that displays a Sprachbund-type relationship with neighbouring Semitic Akkadian Elamite language: a non-Semitic language...

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Romanization (cultural)
Minggu, 2026-07-05 04:32:38

conquests reversed the Romanization and the Hellenization of the native Semitic peoples. Slavic migrations to the Balkans also contributed to the de-Romanization...

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History of the ancient Levant
Selasa, 2026-07-07 22:53:26

Levant was home to many ancient Semitic-speaking peoples and kingdoms, and is considered by many to be the urheimat of Semitic languages. Anatomically modern...

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Jewish exodus from the Muslim world
Senin, 2026-08-10 00:21:37

autonomy (the Assyrians being the indigenous Eastern Aramaic-speaking Semitic descendants of the ancient Assyrians and Mesopotamians, and largely affiliated...

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Aleph
Jumat, 2026-07-03 06:36:49

(also spelled alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀‎, Hebrew ʾālef א, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀‎...

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Hebrews
Selasa, 2026-08-11 15:41:40

Tiberian: ʿĪḇrīm / ʿĪḇrīyyīm; ISO 259-3: ʕibrim / ʕibriyim) were an ancient Semitic-speaking people. Historians mostly consider the Hebrews as synonymous with...

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U
Jumat, 2026-07-24 16:35:10

matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. U derives from the Semitic waw, as does F, and later, Y, W, and V. Its oldest ancestor goes back to...

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Voltaire
Minggu, 2026-08-02 18:57:42

people throughout his life concluded that he was anti-biblical, not anti-semitic. His remarks on the Jews and their "superstitions" were essentially no...

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List of Jewish temples
Jumat, 2026-08-07 08:45:35

Mondriaan, M. E. "Anat-Yahu and the Jews at Elephantine" (PDF). Journal for Semitics. Rosenberg, Stephen G. (March 2004). "The Jewish Temple at Elephantine"...

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List of theological demons
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 10:02:09

Native American,[clarification needed] Persian, Phoenician, Roman, Slavic, Semitic, Sumerian, Zoroastrian Contents Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R...

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Demonym
Minggu, 2026-08-09 02:53:56

name, slightly modified in some instances. These may resemble Late Latin, Semitic, Celtic, or Germanic suffixes, such as -(a)n, -ian, -anian, -nian, -in(e)...

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Phoenix (mythology)
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:12:01

have meant "palm tree". That word is probably a borrowing from a West Semitic word for madder, a red dye made from Rubia tinctorum. The word Phoenician...

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Eric Rudolph
Selasa, 2026-08-11 01:31:05

January 1, 2011. "Tim and Sarah Gayman Discuss Growing Up in the Anti-Semitic Christian Identity Movement", Intelligence Report, no. 102 (Summer 2001 ed...

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Ethiopians
Selasa, 2026-08-11 18:00:02

Ezana. There were three ethnolinguistic groups in the Kingdom of Aksum: Semitic, Cushitic, and Nilo-Saharan (ancestors of the modern-day Kunama and Nara)...

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Sumerian language
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 01:24:10

early inscriptions were read top to bottom from the right. Akkadian, a Semitic language, gradually replaced Sumerian as the primary spoken language in...

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Public Enemy
Senin, 2026-07-20 19:25:55

Jon (August 11, 1989). "Public Enemy Rap Group Reorganizes After Anti-Semitic Comments". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 18,...

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Tell (archaeology)
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 15:04:03

include tall, tel, til and tal. The Arabic word has many cognates in other Semitic languages, such as Akkadian tīlu(m) (𒋾𒇻/𒋾𒄿𒈝). The Akkadian form is...

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Saracen
Senin, 2026-07-13 01:22:29

of it being derived from the Semitic triliteral root šrq "east" and šrkt "tribe, confederation". Another possible Semitic root is srq "to steal, rob, thief"...

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Theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas
Senin, 2025-12-29 01:55:52

or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC. The Sargasso Sea may have been known...

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Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend
Kamis, 2026-06-04 07:36:41

support for Zionism and declared that "anti-Zionist is inherently anti-Semitic, and ever will be so." The forgery may have been inspired by a statement...

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Saleh (name)
Jumat, 2026-06-12 10:30:48

form of the Hebrew Shelah, Selah or Methuselah (Hebrew: שֶׁלַח), is a Semitic male name derivative. In Arabic it means "righteous" or "pious". Notable...

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Ted Nugent
Senin, 2026-07-27 06:05:26

July 9, 2010 Begley, Sarah (February 8, 2016). "Ted Nugent Posts Anti-Semitic Facebook Message About Gun Control". Time. Retrieved April 21, 2021. In...

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Martine Vanhove
Kamis, 2024-05-30 14:04:53

Research Director emerita at LLACAN (CNRS), specializing in Cushitic and Semitic languages spoken in Djibouti, Yemen and Malta. Vanhove earned her PhD in...

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Siege of Lachish
Selasa, 2026-06-23 14:49:36

"Sennacherib's Campaign in Judah: The Conquest of Lachish." Journal for Semitics 24, no. 2: 719–58. Ussishkin, David, and Miriam Feinberg Vamosh. 2015....

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Declension
Jumat, 2026-02-20 21:37:19

Romanian, Kurdish, and Modern Armenian), Bantu (e.g. Swahili, Zulu, Kikuyu), Semitic (e.g. Modern Standard Arabic), Finno-Ugric (e.g. Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian)...

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Hattians
Senin, 2026-03-23 20:56:50

Turkey). They spoke a distinctive Hattian language, which was neither Semitic nor Indo-European. Hattians are attested by archeological records from...

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Talmud
Jumat, 2026-07-24 10:17:57

free dictionary. Talmud translates as "instruction, learning", from the Semitic root lmd, meaning "teach, study". In antiquity, the two major centres of...

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Tadmor
Senin, 2025-10-13 22:47:10

Tadmor or Tadmur is an ancient Semitic name, and may refer to Tadmor, the native name of the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria Tadmor, the native name of...

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Race and appearance of Jesus
Selasa, 2026-06-23 20:47:24

historically inaccurate. By the 19th century, theories that Jesus was non-Semitic were being developed, with writers suggesting he was variously white, black...

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Prophetic perfect tense
Kamis, 2026-07-02 23:43:48

489-90 George Linam Klein, "The 'Prophetic Perfect'" Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 16 (1990): 45-60 Tania Notarius, The Verb in Archaic Biblical...

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Arabs
Senin, 2026-07-27 06:36:47

language in the wake of the Arab conquests, "Arab" largely referred to the Semitic inhabitants—both settled and nomadic—of the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian...

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Lilith
Kamis, 2026-08-06 04:37:55

that the Hebrew and the earlier Akkadian names are derived from Proto-Semitic. Charles Fossey (1902) has this literally translating to "female night...

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Jon Lovitz
Rabu, 2026-08-12 11:06:37

returned". Fox News. Retrieved November 16, 2025. "Jon Lovitz Gets Anti-Semitic Bullies Expelled, Thanks to Twitter". ABC News. Archived from the original...

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10th century
Selasa, 2026-07-28 04:21:09

Queen of Aksum? Some Considerations on the Sources and Modern Scholarship, and the Use of Legends. Journal for Semitics. 28. 10.25159/2663-6573/6003....

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Hurro-Urartian languages
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 19:16:42

century, Hurrian and Urartian were soon recognized as not related to the Semitic or later arriving Indo-European languages, Kartvelian languages, nor to...

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Voiceless pharyngeal fricative
Senin, 2026-06-22 01:34:50

speech sounds. This sound is the most commonly cited realization of the Semitic letter hēth, which occurs in all dialects of Arabic, Classical Syriac,...

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Decapolis
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 11:34:12

Olympios. There is evidence that the colonists adopted the worship of other Semitic gods, including Phoenician deities and the chief Nabatean god, Dushara...

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Somali language
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 21:07:43

obliques preceding verbs. These are common features of the Cushitic and Semitic Afroasiatic languages spoken in the Horn region (e.g. Amharic). However...

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Baal Cycle
Jumat, 2026-07-24 02:11:20

Baal as the god Hadad, the Northwest Semitic form of Adad. The stories are written in Ugaritic, a Northwest Semitic language, and written in a cuneiform...

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V
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 13:41:22

LATIN SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER V U+2C7D ⱽ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL V 𐤅: Semitic letter Waw, from which the following symbols originally derive: Υ υ : Greek...

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The Merchant of Venice
Rabu, 2026-08-05 23:23:08

equivocal comedy The Merchant of Venice is nevertheless a profoundly anti-semitic work". English society in the Elizabethan and Jacobean era has been described...

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Abugida
Rabu, 2026-07-29 20:21:03

extensive Brahmic family of scripts of Tibet and South and Southeast Asia; Semitic Ethiopic scripts; and Canadian Aboriginal syllabics. As in syllabaries...

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Daniel Sivan
Senin, 2026-08-10 10:55:20

gained a Master of Arts degree in Hebrew and Semitic languages. His thesis focused on "Northwest Semitic in Akkadian texts from Ugarit" and was under...

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Wolane people
Rabu, 2026-04-15 04:25:54

people are an ethnic group in central Ethiopia. Wolane people speak a Semitic language which is closely related to Sil'te, Zay and Harari languages....

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Robert Hetzron
Selasa, 2026-05-12 18:04:21

Afro-Asiatic languages, as well as for his study of Cushitic and Ethiopian Semitic languages. Born in Hungary, as a child, Hetzron received both a general...

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Arabian Peninsula
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:19:54

Arabian Peninsula has long been accepted as the original Urheimat of the Semitic languages by most scholars. The seventh century saw the rise of Islam as...

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Antisemitism in Islam
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 10:11:44

anti-Semitic themes have become commonplace in the propaganda of Arab Islamic movements like Hizballah and Hamas...." Lewis (1999) "Anti-semitic motifs...

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Morris M. Feuerlicht
Senin, 2025-09-01 14:42:16

Shortly after becoming rabbi at Lafayette, he began post-graduate studies on Semitics in the University of Chicago under Emil G. Hirsch. He stopped his studies...

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Michael S. Heiser
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 06:44:50

Testament scholar and Christian author with training in ancient history, Semitic languages, and the Hebrew Bible from the University of Pennsylvania and...

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Carrie Prejean
Kamis, 2026-08-06 20:56:27

her show, and I have never heard anything out of her mouth that is anti-Semitic. So I'm not gonna make a statement on something that I haven't heard the...

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Umm
Minggu, 2025-11-23 08:02:18

Arabic. It is a common Arabic feminine given name and generic prefix for Semitic place names. It may refer to: Ain Umm Sujoor, an archaeological site Umm...

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Mizrahi Jews
Kamis, 2026-08-13 01:09:18

Arabic using a modified Hebrew alphabet.[citation needed] Aramaic is a Semitic language subfamily. Specific varieties of Aramaic are identified as "Jewish...

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Religions of the ancient Near East
Selasa, 2026-08-11 08:44:12

Proto-Semitic religion include Canaanite religion and Arabian religion. Judaism is a development of Canaanite religion, both Indo-European and Semitic religions...

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Canaan (disambiguation)
Jumat, 2026-01-23 02:32:38

כנען) (Arabic: كنعان) was the ancient region of the Levant. It is also a Semitic personal name or surname used by Arabic and Hebrew-speaking people. Canaan...

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Yellow vests protests
Jumat, 2026-07-24 19:16:44

said that while "the gilets jaunes are not an anti-Semitic movement, each Saturday there are anti-Semitic expressions by groups of the extreme right or extreme...

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Wazir Beg
Minggu, 2026-03-15 15:59:02

Wazir Beg (1827–1885) was a Semitic scholar, linguist, religious writer, Presbyterian minister and controversialist. Wazir was born in Pune, Maharashtra...

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Resh
Kamis, 2026-06-04 06:40:32

Resh /rɛʃ/ is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician rēš 𐤓, Hebrew rēš ר, Aramaic rēš 𐡓, Syriac rēš ܪ, and Arabic rāʾ ر‎....

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Maghrebi Arabic
Senin, 2026-06-29 05:13:54

Hassaniya and Saharan Arabic dialects. Maghrebi Arabic has a predominantly Semitic and Arabic vocabulary, although it contains a significant number of Berber...

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Regius Professor of Hebrew (Cambridge)
Minggu, 2026-07-12 06:37:10

in 1540. The holder of the chair is the senior academic in Hebrew and Semitics at Cambridge. According to the Royal family, the title of Regius Professor...

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Israeli new shekel
Kamis, 2026-08-13 04:00:27

šaqal 'to weigh', שֶׁקֶל šeqel 'a standard weight'), common with other Semitic languages like Akkadian (resp. šaqālu and šiqlu) and Aramaic (resp. תְּקַל...

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Samuel
Senin, 2026-06-15 03:18:08

"Samuelʼs Birth Legend and the Sanctuary of Shiloh". Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages. 43 (1): 51–61. hdl:10520/EJC-87008214d. ISSN 0259-0131. 1 Samuel...

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Codex Seraphinianus
Selasa, 2026-05-26 05:56:32

Some letters appear only at the beginning or end of words, similar to Semitic writing systems. The curvilinear letters are rope- or thread-like, with...

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Cyrus Adler
Senin, 2026-06-15 00:59:36

Semitic languages from 1885 to 1887. He earned the first American PhD in Semitics from the university in 1887 and was appointed instructor in Semitic...

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Pharyngealization
Senin, 2026-05-11 08:46:21

transliterate the Semitic consonant ayin and which is equivalent to a reversed ⟨ʾ⟩, which itself transliterates the glottal Semitic consonants aleph and...

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Salim (name)
Senin, 2026-06-22 04:54:07

strictly transliterated as Salīm) is a name of Semitic origin from the root It derives from the Semitic tri-consonantal root s-l-m (س-ل-م) meaning "safe"...

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Cronus
Minggu, 2026-08-09 16:25:08

arguing that, in Semitic usage, as in the Hebrew Bible, qeren was a signifier of "power". When Greek writers encountered the Semitic deity El, they rendered...

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Wolf Leslau
Kamis, 2026-04-02 08:22:27

in Fullerton, California) was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethiopia. Leslau was born in Krzepice...

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The Real Housewives of New York City
Senin, 2026-08-10 16:54:23

filming the season on November 16, alleging that she had received anti-Semitic hate across her social media accounts. The fourteenth season premiered...

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Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
Kamis, 2026-08-06 15:22:17

(10–11 January 1898). He was acquitted, a judgment which ignited anti-Semitic riots in Paris. On 13 January 1898, Émile Zola published his famous J'Accuse…...

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Noa Lang
Kamis, 2026-08-13 03:08:30

was defended by the team's organisation claiming that "there was no anti-Semitic undertone". The Club Brugge fans have been noticed by the press for racist...

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Reptilian humanoid
Senin, 2026-07-20 16:12:44

Alexandra (2018-12-21). "Alice Walker, Answering Backlash, Praises Anti-Semitic Author as 'Brave'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-04-09...

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John Cusack
Kamis, 2026-08-06 04:43:49

2023. Retrieved July 29, 2020. "John Cusack: Actor apologises for anti-Semitic tweet". BBC News. June 18, 2019. Archived from the original on April 5...

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Jesus the Magician
Kamis, 2026-02-12 14:53:47

historical Jesus was a magician who "sprang from a Galilean strain of Semitic paganism" (p. 68). The idea that Jesus was a magician did not originate...

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Genitive case
Selasa, 2026-06-30 14:22:43

door for a house) The Semitic genitive should not be confused with the pronominal possessive suffixes that exist in all the Semitic languages e.g. Arabic...

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Christ (title)
Selasa, 2026-07-28 01:04:59

Greek: μεσσίας, romanized: messías (alternative to χριστός), from the same Semitic word. Viz. 1485 Rolls of Parliament VI.280/I The most famous, beloved,...

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Shophet
Selasa, 2025-06-24 03:09:25

In several ancient Semitic-speaking cultures and associated historical regions, the shopheṭ or shofeṭ (plural shophetim or shofetim; Hebrew: שׁוֹפֵט,...

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Terms for Syriac Christians
Kamis, 2026-06-25 04:22:48

includes a specific group of ethnoreligious terms, related to various Semitic communities of Neo-Aramaic-speaking Christians, that are indigenous to...

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Japhetic theory
Kamis, 2026-03-05 06:14:00

that the Kartvelian languages of the Caucasus area are related to the Semitic languages of the Middle East. The hypothesis gained favor in the 1930s...

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Bob Eubanks
Selasa, 2026-07-21 05:00:55

the Anti-Defamation League for containing anti-Semitic content, despite the fact that the only anti-Semitic content in the film was contributed by Eubanks...

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Judeo-Tat
Selasa, 2026-07-21 07:00:05

originated in the same region of the Persian Empire. Judeo-Tat features Semitic elements in all linguistic levels of the language. Uniquely, Judeo-Tat...

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Inanna
Minggu, 2026-08-09 10:55:51

across Mesopotamia. Adoration of Inanna/Ishtar was continued by the East Semitic-speaking peoples (Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians) who succeeded and...

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Palestinians
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:11:14

conjectured to refer to the "Sea Peoples", particularly the Philistines. Among Semitic languages, Akkadian Palaštu (variant Pilištu) is used of 7th-century Philistia...

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Patronymic
Rabu, 2026-08-12 02:12:00

addition of suffixes that form surnames. A common feature of historical Semitic names is use of a patronymic system. Since ancient times, men and women...

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Beja people
Kamis, 2026-07-30 23:41:56

the Beja speak a Cushitic language called Beja and some speak Tigre, a Semitic language, while others speak Arabic. In Eritrea and southeastern Sudan...

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Alhamdulillah
Kamis, 2026-07-09 19:03:31

the Arabic word for "God". ʾilāh is the Arabic cognate of the ancient Semitic name for God, El. The phrase is first found in the first verse of the first...

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Segal
Selasa, 2026-03-10 14:38:07

American television actor Judah Segal (1912–2003), British professor of Semitics Kate Segal (born 1975), Member of the Michigan House of Representatives...

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Manichaean script
Selasa, 2026-07-21 16:41:12

The Manichaean script is an abjad-based writing system rooted in the Semitic family of alphabets and associated with the spread of Manichaeism from southwest...

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Conspiracy theory
Minggu, 2026-08-02 14:34:41

Nefes, Türkay S (2013). "Political parties' perceptions and uses of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in Turkey". The Sociological Review. 61 (2): 247–264...

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AFC Ajax
Selasa, 2026-08-04 21:54:14

Foer, Franklin (8 November 2024). "The Strange History Behind the Anti-Semitic Dutch Soccer Attacks". Culture. The Atlantic. Retrieved 9 November 2024...

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Criterion of contextual credibility
Senin, 2026-07-20 10:16:35

criterion of Semitisms and Palestinian background or the criterion of Semitic language phenomena and Palestinian environment is a tool used by Biblical...

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History of the Latin script
Minggu, 2026-06-14 04:35:43

has changed continually over the last 2,500 years. It has roots in the Semitic alphabet and its offshoot alphabets, the Phoenician, Greek, and Etruscan...

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Church of Satan
Selasa, 2026-08-04 02:05:27

"Buzzfeed article by Joseph Bernstein "History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image"". BuzzFeed. February 5, 2015. Heimbach, MJ (May 1, 2002). "Testimony...

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Demon
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 19:55:03

of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which drew on the mythology of ancient Semitic religions. This was then inherited by the Koine text of the New Testament...

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Affricate
Rabu, 2026-08-12 21:54:34

/t͡ʃ/, as in chin (cf. German: Kinn: Anglo-Frisian palatalization) Proto-Semitic /ɡ/ > Standard Arabic /d͡ʒ/ in all positions, as in جمل /d͡ʒamal/ (jamal)...

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Chevy Chase
Selasa, 2026-08-11 22:01:25

both a critical and commercial failure. Chase guest-starred as an anti-Semitic murder suspect in "In Vino Veritas", the November 3, 2006, episode of Law...

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Bodleian Library
Minggu, 2026-08-02 10:36:46

ac.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2017. "Weston Library | Hebraica, Judaica & Semitics". Bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2017. Jenkins, S. "Clarendon Building"...

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Teth
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:51:07

Teth, also written as Ṭēth or Tet, is the ninth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ṭēt 𐤈, Hebrew ṭēṯ ט, Aramaic ṭēṯ 𐡈, Syriac ṭēṯ ܛ...

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Etymology of cannabis
Minggu, 2026-05-03 10:39:17

astonishing resemblance between the Semitic kanbos and the Scythian cannabis lead me to suppose that the Scythian word was of Semitic origin. These etymological...

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Sumerian religion
Kamis, 2026-07-23 05:03:45

the underworld. The later Mesopotamians knew this underworld by its East Semitic name: Irkalla. During the Akkadian Period, Ereshkigal's role as the ruler...

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Ancient North Arabian
Senin, 2026-07-13 06:24:15

"Ancient North Arabian" is defined negatively. It refers to all of the South Semitic scripts except Ancient South Arabian (ASA) regardless of their genetic...

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Ku Klux Klan
Minggu, 2026-08-09 11:57:56

based on a new anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, Prohibitionist, and anti-Semitic agenda that reflected contemporary social tensions, particularly those...

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History of Ethiopia
Selasa, 2026-08-11 18:21:53

thousands of years. Abyssinia or rather "Ze Etiyopia" was ruled by the Semitic Abyssinians (Habesha) composed mainly of the Amhara, Tigrayans and the...

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Babylonian cuneiform numerals
Rabu, 2026-07-15 10:18:31

numerals of Semitic languages rather than Sumerian lexical numbers. However, the use of a special Sumerian sign for 60 (beside two Semitic signs for the...

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Homeric Question
Selasa, 2026-07-28 08:47:45

carryover from the Mediterranean seafarers' vocabulary adoption of the Semitic word base 'MR' which means "say" or "tell". "Homer" may simply be the Mediterranean...

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Pan-Semitism
Rabu, 2025-05-07 21:42:00

Pan-Semitism is a pan-nationalist ideology that espouses the unification of Semitic-speaking peoples, which mostly included Arabs and Jews, but also Syriac...

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Luciana Berger
Kamis, 2026-08-06 21:52:22

anti-Semitic remarks". BBC News. 9 January 2013. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015. "Man jailed for anti-Semitic...

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Tannaim
Minggu, 2026-05-17 03:04:42

the Aramaic equivalent of the Hebrew root shānā (שנה), which also is the Semitic root found in the word Mishnah. Shana means 'to repeat [what one was taught]'...

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Israelites
Rabu, 2026-08-12 18:47:46

The Israelites, also known as the Children of Israel, were an ancient Semitic-speaking people who lived in Canaan during the Iron Age. They are associated...

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Shōwa era
Kamis, 2026-07-23 01:36:58

to Japan who attempted but ultimately failed to inject Nazi-style anti-Semitic arguments into mainstream public discussion. Where the government presented...

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Arabic definite article
Jumat, 2026-07-31 11:59:49

While the Proto-Semitic language did not have any articles, the most likely theory is that the article al- comes from the same proto-Semitic source as the...

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Phaistos Disc decipherment claims
Minggu, 2026-06-14 15:36:49

syllabic-ideographic writing);[citation needed] K. Aartun (1992) (interpretation as a Semitic language, syllabic writing); side A first; reading outwards; C.H. Gordon;[citation...

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Oceanus
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:30:07

according to West, no "very convincing" foreign models have been found. A Semitic derivation has been suggested by several scholars, while R. S. P. Beekes...

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Ethnic groups in the Caucasus
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:06:00

Buddhist government. Caucasians that speak languages belonging to the Semitic language family: Assyrians in the Caucasus number approximately 35,000...

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Greek Dark Ages
Minggu, 2026-08-09 20:37:27

experience of it. The Greeks adapted the abjad used to write Phoenician, a Semitic language used by the Phoenicians, notably adapting the matres lectionis...

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Adamic language
Jumat, 2026-07-03 03:05:10

skeptical. According to Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions, the ancient Semitic language of Geʽez is the language of Adam, the first and original language...

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Bloemfontein
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 07:24:46

as well as of a crudely drawn Magen David, allegedly as part of an anti-Semitic act. There is also the old Phahameng cemetery, which dates back to the...

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Roman Syria
Selasa, 2026-06-23 14:19:07

inland was mostly populated by Aramaic speakers descended from various West Semitic peoples who inhabited Syria. Arabs were settled throughout Hauran, Trachonitis...

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Addis Ababa
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:37:32

centuries before the city's foundation. The Gafat spoke a South Ethio-Semitic language distinct from both Amharic and Oromo, and by the 16th century...

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Biblical Hebrew
Rabu, 2026-08-12 11:18:05

form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel...

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Asherah
Jumat, 2026-08-07 01:27:29

romanized: Aširat; Qatabanian: 𐩱𐩻𐩧𐩩 ʾṯrt) was a goddess in ancient Semitic religions. She also appears in Hittite writings as Ašerdu(š) or Ašertu(š)...

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Revia (Hebrew cantillation mark)
Senin, 2026-02-02 10:35:19

"The Revia in the Context of Decoding Masoretic Accents", Journal of Semitics, 2011, Vol 21/1, pp. 28-51. Chanting the Hebrew Bible By Joshua R. Jacobson...

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Yakov Dzhugashvili
Senin, 2026-08-10 04:12:02

and her family were ethnically Jewish, Dzughashvili was also openly anti-Semitic, claiming Jews "trade, or aspire to careers in engineering, but they do...

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Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin
Minggu, 2026-07-19 23:15:29

July 1953. The doctors who had been imprisoned were released and the anti-Semitic purges ceased. A mass amnesty for certain categories of convicts was issued...

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Menelik I
Senin, 2026-06-01 17:53:53

"PhD diss, University of St. Andrews. The name "Menelik" is Amharic (a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia) in origin, and has two meanings:[1] "Son of...

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Demographics of Syria
Jumat, 2026-08-07 00:55:21

and history. But they are, in fact, genetically a blend of the various Semitic-speaking groups indigenous to the region. With around 10% of the population...

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Saudis
Senin, 2026-07-27 18:24:14

the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who speak the Arabic language, a Central Semitic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. Saudi Arabians...

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Kidane
Senin, 2026-01-12 02:57:51

Kidane (Amharic: ኪዳነ), is a word in various Ethiopian Semitic languages that translates to covenant or vow. It is also a common male name in Ethiopia...

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Shalom aleichem
Senin, 2026-04-13 05:30:00

respond Aleichem shalom as part of the Kiddush levana ritual. Many other Semitic languages (the language family to which Hebrew belongs), as well as some...

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Mari, Syria
Minggu, 2026-07-26 21:57:46

𒈠𒌷𒆠, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; Arabic: تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria. Its remains form a tell 11 kilometres (6...

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Catholic University of America
Minggu, 2026-08-09 08:37:35

materials ranging from medieval manuscripts to modern first editions. The Semitics/Institute of Christian Oriental Research (ICOR) library supports research...

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Kebab
Senin, 2026-08-10 16:11:42

the Aramaic. The American Heritage Dictionary also gives a probable East Semitic root origin with the meaning of 'burn', 'char', or 'roast', from the Aramaic...

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Mehri language
Kamis, 2026-06-18 02:48:53

Kuwait. It is the most spoken language of the MSAL group, a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is one of six distinct languages within...

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Shekel
Selasa, 2026-06-30 15:43:12

and Hasmonean Judea. The word shekel is based on the triliteral Proto-Semitic root ṯql, cognate to the Akkadian šiqlu or siqlu, a unit of weight equivalent...

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Baetyl
Selasa, 2026-08-11 07:51:46

the Greek baetylus/baitylos (βαίτυλος), itself being derived from the Semitic term bytʾl (or "beth-el", "house of god"), where it appears to have referred...

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Verb–subject–object word order
Senin, 2026-06-08 02:02:31

teacher reads the book ^* Arabic script is written right-to-left Another Semitic language, Biblical Hebrew, uses VSO, as in Genesis 1:1, which is seen here...

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Bianna Golodryga
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 23:28:29

accusing Israel of 'controlling the media' and having 'deep pockets' is anti-Semitic." Since the interview, Pakistani government officials and social media...

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Caron
Selasa, 2026-07-07 15:35:34

/ʃ/ phoneme in Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform, and the /ʃ/ phoneme in Semitic languages represented by the letter shin (Phoenician and its descendants)...

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Kharosthi
Selasa, 2026-06-30 21:25:29

Tarim Basin. The name Kharosthi may derive from the Hebrew kharosheth, a Semitic word for writing,[additional citation(s) needed] or from Old Iranian *xšaθra-pištra...

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Jasper (given name)
Kamis, 2026-07-23 16:03:48

Jasper (of Persian origin) is unrelated to that of the gemstone jasper (of Semitic origin). Jasper may refer to: Jasper van den Bos (1634–1656), Dutch marine...

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Gurage people
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 00:31:52

Gurage (/ɡʊəˈrɑːɡeɪ/, Gurage: ጉራጌ) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group inhabiting Ethiopia. They inhabit the Gurage Zone and East Gurage Zone, a fertile...

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Romanization
Rabu, 2026-07-29 12:18:26

specifically adoption of Chinese literary culture Latinisation of names Semitic romanization Spread of the Latin script "Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft"...

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Anti-Jewish laws
Jumat, 2025-10-03 17:51:09

Anti-Jewish laws have been a common occurrence throughout the history of antisemitism and Jewish history. Examples of such laws include special Jewish...

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Himyaritic language
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 10:08:48

Himyaritic is a sparsely attested Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Yemen by the Himyarites. It was a Semitic language but either did not belong...

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Vassal state
Kamis, 2026-07-30 07:18:23

until the collapse of the latter in the 12th century BC. A shift from Semitic names used by descendants of Aziru suggest a lasting impact of Hittite...

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Kitfo
Senin, 2026-07-27 00:19:06

clarified butter infused with herbs and spices). The word comes from the Ethio-Semitic triconsonantal root k-t-f, meaning "to chop finely; mince". Kitfo cooked...

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Harla people
Selasa, 2026-03-10 13:12:08

They spoke the Harla language, which belonged to either the Cushitic or Semitic branches of the Afroasiatic family. The Harla are credited by the present-day...

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Iranian calendars
Selasa, 2026-07-07 23:41:30

each dedicated to a yazata (Eyzad), and four divisions resembling the Semitic week. Four days per month were dedicated to Ahura Mazda and seven were...

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Centaur
Senin, 2026-08-10 19:41:48

Ixion's kingdom. Another proposed etymology was "bull-killer". Proposed Semitic etymologies are far-fetched. The centaurs were usually said to have been...

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Voiced dental fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:05:45

voiceless dental non-sibilant fricatives among their consonants. Among Semitic languages, they are used in Modern Standard Arabic, albeit not by all speakers...

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Tarsus, Mersin
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 06:20:55

pre-Homeric Greek evidence onwards. The city may have been of Anatolian or Semitic origin; it is first mentioned as Tarsisi in Neo-Assyrian records of the...

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Pre-Indo-European languages
Minggu, 2026-03-08 00:59:21

Asia (including Iran and Anatolia), the pre-Indo-European, Caucasian, Semitic languages, Dravidian and language isolates have survived to the present...

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Jews
Senin, 2026-08-03 06:19:48

origin of the Jews lie in the Israelites, a confederation of Iron Age Semitic-speaking tribes that inhabited a part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic...

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Languages of Europe
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:29:02

Turkic families. Still smaller groups — such as Basque (language isolate), Semitic languages (Maltese, c. 0.5 million), and various languages of the Caucasus...

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Arabic grammar
Jumat, 2026-07-03 06:37:20

the Arabic language. Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities with the grammar of other Semitic languages. Classical Arabic and...

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Phonetic transcription
Jumat, 2026-06-19 21:40:34

is still commonly used [citation needed] by linguists of Slavic, Indic, Semitic, Uralic (here known as the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet) and Caucasian languages...

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History of antisemitism in the United States
Senin, 2026-08-10 09:15:17

2014). "Miami Beach Cars Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Messages". NBC. Retrieved July 29, 2014. "Anti-Semitic Vandalism Found at South Florida Synagogue"...

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Globalism
Rabu, 2026-08-05 12:10:34

December 2024. Weber, Peter (7 March 2018). "Mick Mulvaney throws an 'anti-Semitic dog whistle' into his fond farewell message to Gary Cohn". The Week. Retrieved...

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La Jolla
Senin, 2026-08-10 00:17:32

had to make up their minds whether they wanted a university or an anti-Semitic covenant. You couldn't have both." The issue was overcome; La Jolla now...

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List of biblical names starting with J
Selasa, 2026-07-21 02:07:46

Joppa Jorah Joram Jordan, Some translate it as "the descender," from the Semitic yrd, "to descend" Jorim Josabad Josaphat Jose Joseph, may God add Joses...

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Vowel shift
Selasa, 2026-06-23 16:11:12

which included iotacism. Among the Semitic languages, the Canaanite languages underwent a shift in which Proto-Semitic *ā became ō in Proto-Canaanite (a...

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Kristallnacht
Selasa, 2026-08-11 12:42:55

for admission. By 1938, Germany "had entered a new radical phase in anti-Semitic activity". Some historians believe that the Nazi government had been contemplating...

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Astarte (disambiguation)
Jumat, 2026-03-27 15:43:38

Look up Astarte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Astarte is an ancient Semitic goddess. Astarte may also refer to: Astarte, an 1891 collection of erotic...

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Orange Is the New Black
Senin, 2026-08-10 07:37:40

Anne Cohen from The Forward said the season used "traditionally anti-Semitic tropes", while Nathan Abrams from Haaretz described a "remarkably upbeat...

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Punic people
Selasa, 2026-08-11 19:11:05

known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people who migrated from Phoenicia to the western Mediterranean during...

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Rephaite
Senin, 2026-07-27 00:15:55

Bible, as well as non-Jewish ancient texts from the region, the Northwest Semitic term Rephaite, or Repha'im (Biblical Hebrew: רְפָאִים, romanized: rəp̄āʾīm;...

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Kish civilization
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 07:41:46

sites of Abu Salabikh and Kish in central Mesopotamia into the early East Semitic era in Mesopotamia and the Levant. The term itself was coined by Ignace...

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Cuneiform
Kamis, 2026-08-06 12:29:55

Akkadian Empire from the 24th century BC. The Akkadian language being East Semitic, its structure was completely different from Sumerian. The Akkadians found...

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Nimrod
Rabu, 2026-08-05 18:53:08

find any historical, linguistic or genetic link between the Sumerian and Semitic Mesopotamians and the distant and later emerging Kingdom of Kush in modern...

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Sacred language
Rabu, 2026-07-29 00:22:03

purposes in the Roman Empire. Geʽez, the predecessor of many Ethiopian Semitic languages (e.g. Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre) used as a liturgical language...

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Ahnenpass
Senin, 2026-07-20 17:19:10

considered that there was a Caucasian race which was sub-divided into Semitic, Hamitic, and Aryan (Japhetic) subraces, the latter corresponding to the...

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Alfred Nobel
Selasa, 2026-06-23 01:46:36

March 2013. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. "The anti-Semitic, chauvinistic side of Alfred Nobel". The Jewish Independent. 16 July 2018...

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Sabians
Selasa, 2026-08-11 18:41:23

those are the Sabians of Harran, adherents of a poorly understood ancient Semitic religion centered in the upper Mesopotamian city of Harran, who were described...

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Africa (Roman province)
Senin, 2026-07-13 22:41:08

indigenous to all of North Africa west of Egypt. In the 9th century BC, Semitic-speaking Phoenicians from the Levant built coastal settlements across the...

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Abyssinia
Rabu, 2026-08-12 02:08:35

derivative ethnonym, Abyssinian, was often used to refer to the Ethio-Semitic-speaking inhabitants of the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The origin...

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Melkite
Senin, 2026-07-27 02:11:42

the Byzantine Rite, and their members. The name comes from the Central Semitic root m-l-k 'royal', referring to the loyalty to the Byzantine emperor,...

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Heth
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:47:39

Ḥeth, sometimes written Chet, Khet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ḥēt 𐤇, Hebrew ḥēṯ ח, Aramaic ḥēṯ 𐡇, Syriac...

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Seventy disciples
Selasa, 2026-07-28 02:25:37

Oxford, and Munich with an English Translation. Anecdota Oxoniensia: Semitic series. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 113–114. Burke, Tony (February...

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Given name
Kamis, 2026-07-30 21:42:42

the New Testament—such as Thomas, Martha, and Bartholomew. All of the Semitic peoples of history and the present day use at least some names constructed...

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Writing system
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:53:05

with most used to write Semitic languages, and originally deriving from the Proto-Sinaitic script. The morphology of Semitic languages is particularly...

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Masoretic Text
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:20:30

(2016). "The Validity of the Masoretic Text: Evidence from Masoretic Vocalisation". Journal for Semitics. 25 (2): 1064–1079. doi:10.25159/1013-8471/2569....

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Asher
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:17:36

meaning "happy" (Genesis 30:13). Indeed, the name אָשֵׁר is a typical Semitic name, deriving from the Hebrew root ʔ-š-r ('to be happy') and the stative...

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Mot (god)
Senin, 2026-06-01 07:19:14

death. The word belongs to a set of cognates meaning 'death' in other Semitic and Afro-Asiatic languages: Arabic موت mawt; Hebrew מות (mot or mavet;...

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Proto-Indo-European homeland
Rabu, 2026-08-12 21:33:53

the proposed Semitic loans *táwros 'bull' and *wéyh₁on- 'wine; vine' to be more likely. Anthony notes that the small number of Semitic loanwords in Proto-Indo-European...

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Alice Levine
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 16:34:06

Sen was a former member of UKIP, which he was expelled from for an anti-Semitic tweet, and the BNP, from which he was suspended for his extremism. He was...

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Turanism
Selasa, 2026-08-11 22:33:32

philologist, published and proposed a new grouping of the non-Aryan and non-Semitic Asian languages in 1855. In his work The Languages of the Seat of War in...

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Jinn
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:22:01

association with idolatry. Jinn is an Arabic collective noun deriving from the Semitic root jnn (Arabic: جَنّ / جُنّ, jann), whose primary meaning is 'to hide'...

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Ancient Carthage
Jumat, 2026-08-07 23:15:18

political office. Carthaginians spoke a variety of Phoenician called Punic, a Semitic language originating in their ancestral homeland of Phoenicia (present-day...

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Evan Rachel Wood
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:08:57

Annabel (February 6, 2021). "Evan Rachel Wood accuses Marilyn Manson of anti-Semitic abuse during relationship". The Independent. Retrieved April 19, 2022....

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The Zeitgeist Movement
Kamis, 2025-05-01 06:56:48

the movement was "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories." Alan Feuer of The New York Times said the movement...

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Sapphire
Senin, 2026-08-10 10:34:58

sapphirus, itself from the Greek word sappheiros (σάπφειρος, itself from a Semitic origin), which referred to lapis lazuli. Sapphire with colors other than...

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Aziz
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 12:45:08

Hebrew: עָזִז, romanized: ʿAzīz; Akkadian: 𒀀𒍣𒍪, romanized: ʿEzīzū) is a Semitic name from the root two-zayin. In the Hebrew Bible, the root two-zayin (ז-ז)...

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He
Jumat, 2026-07-17 00:06:24

Korean video game Lobotomy Corporation He (letter), the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads He (Georgian letter), a letter in the Georgian scripts He (pronoun)...

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White Army
Rabu, 2026-07-01 14:01:05

partisans). Historian Ronald Suny notes that a higher proportion of anti-semitic attacks were committed by the White military, which accounted for 17% of...

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Languages of Asia
Minggu, 2026-08-02 12:45:22

Afroasiatic languages (in older sources Hamito-Semitic) are represented in Asia by the Semitic branch. Semitic languages are spoken in West Asia, and include...

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Syllabary
Kamis, 2026-06-25 00:00:31

cluster. The languages of India and Southeast Asia, as well as the Ethiopian Semitic languages, have a type of alphabet called an abugida or alphasyllabary...

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Iberian language
Senin, 2026-07-20 21:01:49

the two. In contrast, the Punic language of Carthaginian settlers was Semitic, while Indo-European languages of the peninsula during the Iron Age include...

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Brikha Nasoraia
Selasa, 2026-05-19 17:03:04

Mardin Artuklu University. He is currently a Professor of Comparative Semitics, Literature and Art History. Since July 2024, he has held the rank of rishama...

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Goad
Selasa, 2026-05-19 19:00:40

some manuscripts. In the Latin alphabet, the letter L is derived from the Semitic crook or goad which stood for /l/. This may originally have been based...

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Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
Senin, 2026-08-10 11:23:45

western Delta. In the north, Lower Egypt was overrun by the Hyksos, a Semitic people from across the Sinai. According to Manetho, invaders from the east...

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National Liberation Front of Corsica
Jumat, 2026-08-07 07:06:23

in Corsica". Agenzia Nova. 9 October 2023. Retrieved 7 May 2024. "Anti-Semitic and anti-French graffiti condemned in Corsica". 5 January 2024. Ramsay...

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Arabia Petraea
Minggu, 2026-06-21 03:32:10

decoration. The result was a mixture of Roman, Hellenistic, and indigenous Semitic forms rather than a simple cultural replacement. Before Roman control in...

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Alexander Cockburn
Selasa, 2026-07-14 14:21:14

the original on 1 November 2006. Algemeiner, The. "Guardian Praises Anti-Semitic Site "CounterPunch" as Progressive". Algemeiner.com. Archived from the...

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He (letter)
Jumat, 2026-07-24 01:25:59

He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician hē 𐤄, Hebrew hē ה, Aramaic hē 𐡄, Syriac hē ܗ, and Arabic hāʾ ه‎. It is also related...

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Hadad
Rabu, 2026-08-12 19:39:59

him, but given that the only storm-god available for identification in Semitic culture was Hadad and in Hittite Sutekh (a war-god who's been hypothesized...

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Cumin
Selasa, 2026-06-23 02:12:19

cuminum. This in turn comes from the Ancient Greek κύμινον (kúminon), a Semitic borrowing related to Hebrew כמון (kammōn) and Arabic كمون‎ (kammūn). They...

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Latin alphabet
Jumat, 2026-07-31 15:16:16

called [ˈaha] or [ˈaka]. In general the Romans did not use the traditional (Semitic-derived) names as in Greek: the names of the plosives were formed by adding...

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2nd millennium BC
Senin, 2026-04-27 14:05:47

extinct Anatolian branch of Indo-European languages. The first Northwest Semitic language, Ugaritic, is attested in the 14th century BC. The first fully...

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Muhammad (name)
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:44:32

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

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Andinia Plan
Senin, 2026-08-03 11:20:27

Wildfires". Haaretz. Retrieved 11 February 2026. "ADL Outraged by Anti-Semitic Conspiracies Circulating in Connection with Tragic Fire in Chilean Patagonia"...

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Fig
Senin, 2026-08-10 01:08:52

source *tʰuōiḱo- or *tʰū(i)ḱo- in the Mediterranean region, perhaps in a Semitic language. The name of the caprifig, Ficus caprificus Risso, is derived...

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Mihrab
Kamis, 2026-06-04 10:15:47

Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195309911. Lipiński, Edward (2001). Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Peeters Publishers. p. 224...

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F
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:26:02

ef (pronounced /ˈɛf/ ), and the plural is efs. The origin of ⟨F⟩ is the Semitic letter waw, which represented the sound /w/. It probably originally depicted...

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Chaldean people
Jumat, 2026-04-03 05:42:21

Chaldean people may refer to: Ancient Chaldeans, ancient Semitic people in southern Mesopotamia Modern Chaldeans, modern self-identification of Chaldean...

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David Appleyard
Minggu, 2026-04-12 08:22:09

University of London, where he specialized in Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages, as well as various Cushitic languages of the region. He went...

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