English Explanatory Dictionary

Aramaic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
  2. The language of the Arameans from the tenth century BC: often called Old Aramaic.
  3. The language of the administration in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires from the seventh to fourth centuries BC: often called Imperial Aramaic or Official Aramaic.
  4. The language of portions of the Hebrew Bible, mainly the books of Ezra and Daniel: often called Biblical Aramaic.
  5. The language of Jesus of Nazareth: a form of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Galilean Aramaic.
  6. The language of Jewish targums, Midrash and the Talmuds, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.
  7. The liturgical language of various Christian churches: often called Syriac.
  8. The liturgical language of the Mandaeans: usually called Mandaic.
  9. Any language of this family today called Neo-Aramaic, and separated by religion also Judeo-Aramaic and Syriac
adj
  1. Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry.
noun
  1. An Aramean.

Pronunciation

/ˌæ.ɹəˈmeɪ.ɪk/ /ˌæɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Knabrupt-Aramaic.wav /ˌɛɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/ en-us-Aramaic.ogg

Word forms

Aramaic Aramaïc Aramaics

Etymology

From Latin Aramaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραμαϊκός (Aramaïkós), itself a calque of Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ / אָרָמָיָא (ʾārāmāyā, “Aramean”) using Ἀράμ f (Arám, “Aram”, the name of a land originally covering central regions of what is now Syria) (from Aramaic ܐܪܡ / ארם (ʾarām)) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix) (compare with Ἀραμαῖος (Aramaîos, “Aramean”), and the latter with Χαναναῖος (Khananaîos, “Chananean”), from Χαναάν f (Khanaán, “Canaan”) + -αῖος (-aîos)). By surface analysis, Aram + -ic.

Synonyms

Chaldee

Related words

Aram Arama- Aramaism Aramaist Aramaization Aramaize Aramea Aramean Arameo- Arameogram Arameophone Wiktionary’s coverage of Aramaic terms Syria Syriac Syrian

Derived words

Achaemenid Aramaic Biblical Aramaic Christian Palestinian Aramaic Classical Aramaic Egyptian Aramaic Galilean Aramaic Imperial Aramaic Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Jewish Literary Aramaic Judean Aramaic Judeo-Aramaic Late Aramaic Melkite Aramaic Middle Aramaic Modern Aramaic Neo-Aramaic Neo-Assyrian Aramaic Neo-Babylonian Aramaic Official Aramaic Old Aramaic Qumran Aramaic Standard Aramaic Syro-Aramaic Syropalestinian Aramaic Western Aramaic Hebrew-Aramaic Scriptures

Translations

Arabic: آرَامِيَّة Arabic: آرامي Aramaic: ארמית Aramaic: ܐܪܡܝܐ Armenian: արամերեն Armenian: արամեերեն Asturian: araméu Catalan: arameu Chinese Mandarin: 阿拉姆語 /阿拉姆语 Czech: aramejština Danish: aramæisk Dutch: Aramees Farefare: Aramnɛ Finnish: aramea French: araméen Galician: arameo Galician: aramaico German: Aramäisch Greek: αραμαϊκά Greek: Αραμαϊκή Ancient Greek: Χαλδαϊστί Gujarati: અરામી Hebrew: אֲרַמִּית Hindi: आरामी Hindi: अरामी Hungarian: arámi Irish: Aramais Italian: aramaico Japanese: アラム語 Korean: 아람어 Latin: Aramaica Latin: Chaldaea Manchu: ᠠᡵᠠᠮ ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ Manx: Aramaaish Persian: آرامی Pohnpeian: Aramaik Polish: aramejski Portuguese: aramaico Portuguese: arameu Russian: араме́йский Spanish: arameo Swahili: Kiaramu Swedish: arameiska Tajik: оромӣ Turkish: Aramice Volapük: laramey Welsh: Aramaeg Yiddish: אַראַמיש Yiddish: תּרגום־לשון
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