plural of Semite

Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afroasiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc.

The Semitic languages in general.

A member of a modern people that speak a Semitic language.

The study of the Semitic languages, cultures and peoples.

(countable) A word or phrase (construction or idiom) typical of or influenced by Hebrew or Aramaic. (Compare Hebraism.) / (uncountable, rare) Semitic character; Semiticness.

plural of Semitism

(rare) The quality or state of being Semitic.

The process of a language becoming increasingly like the Semitic languages. / The process of a religion increasingly acquiring the characteristics of the Abrahamic religions.

(transitive) To make Semitic as to language or culture.