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Aramaean

British  
/ ˌærəˈmiːən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Aram (the biblical name for ancient Syria)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Aram

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“This is happening every day,” said Shadi Khaloul, a Christian Aramaean activist, as he stands in a pastoral orchard in the northern Israeli town of Jish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

Other cultures like the Aramaean peoples and the Israelites quickly adapted the new script to their own languages.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The project is an attempt to check the historical authenticity of Old Testament accounts of the Egyptian, Aramaean, Assyrian and Babylonian offensives against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and conflicts between these two realms.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

“Integration is supposed to be give and take,” Zelika Baba, a Berlin-based youth worker of Kurdish and Aramaean descent, once told me.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2018

The Aramaean, or Third Semitic migration, in time swamped various decaying States.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie

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