Himyaritic

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Himyarite +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌhɪm.jəˈrɪ.tɪk/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɪtɪk
  • Hyphenation: Him‧ya‧ri‧tic, Him‧ya‧rit‧ic

Proper noun

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Himyaritic

  1. (obsolete) Old South Arabian. [to be expected till ca. 1950]
  2. (historiography) Any language or dialect belonging to Himyarites and reported from an ancient Arabic perspective as peculiar.
    • 2007, Christian Robin, edited by Versteegh, Kees, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 257b:
      If the traditional Arab and Islamic scholars are to be believed, the Ḥimyaritic language was incomprehensible to a speaker of Arabic.
  3. An imagined Semitic language belonging to the Himyarites who however generally wrote Sabaean.

Adjective

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Himyaritic (comparative more Himyaritic, superlative most Himyaritic)

  1. Related or belonging to the aforementioned language or language group.

References

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  1. ^ Himyaritic”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.