Category:Semitic

Sem*it"ic, a.

Defn: of or pertaining to shem or his descendants; belonging to that Division of the caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [written also shemitic.] Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phoenician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). Encyc. Brit.