English Explanatory Dictionary

Hamite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A descendant of Ham, son of Noah, a member of the nations or peoples supposedly descended from Ham, i.e. the North African and the Horn African peoples.
noun
  1. Any member of the Hamites.

Word forms

Hamite Hamites Khamite

Etymology

From Ham + -ite. Coined in the first half of the 19th century along with Semite and Japhetite and the adjectives Hamitic, Semitic, Japhetitic.

Derived words

Hamitic Hamitism Hamitoid
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on H Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary