Baath

American  

[bah-ahth] / ˈbɑ ɑθ /

Or Baʿath,

noun

1. a socialist party of some Arab countries, especially Iraq and Syria.

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Ba'ath British  

/ bɑːˈɑːθ /

noun

1. a variant of Ba'th

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Other Word Forms

• Baathism noun
• Baathist noun

Etymology

Origin of Baath

From the Arabic word baʿath literally, renaissance

Example Sentences

The accords wouldn’t have been dreamed of in a world in which Saddam, one of his sons or some other Baath Party goon reigned in Baghdad.

From The Wall Street Journal

The dismantling of the decades-old apparatus behind the oppressive machine of the Assads, such as the country's army and the ruling Baath party, meant the sacking of hundreds of thousands of people.

From BBC

At the centre in Damascus, formerly an office of Assad's Baath Party, hundreds of men were thronging to the gate, hankering to be let in.

From BBC

Assad’s fall ends more than six decades of Baath Party rule that sought to center Syria as a leader in the Arab world, but instead left it corruption-riddled and impoverished.

From Los Angeles Times

The Lebanese Baath Party is a branch of the Syrian Baath Party, headed by President Bashar Al-Assad, and a long-time Hezbollah ally.

From BBC