English Explanatory Dictionary

Cushite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa, historically considered the descendants of biblical Cush.
name
  1. The Cushitic subfamily of languages.
noun
  1. A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Cushite Kushite Cushites

Etymology

From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).

Derived words

anti-Cushite
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