Hamite

American  

[ham-ahyt] / ˈhæm aɪt /

noun

1. (in the Bible) a descendant of Ham.

2. Sometimes Offensive. a member of any of various peoples of northern and eastern Africa, such as the ancient Egyptians and modern Berbers, especially those speaking any non-Semitic Afroasiatic language.

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Hamite British  

/ ˈhæmaɪt /

noun

1. a member of a group of peoples of N Africa supposedly descended from Noah's son Ham (Genesis 5:32, 10:6), including the ancient Egyptians, the Berbers, etc

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Etymology

Origin of Hamite

First recorded in 1635–45; Ham + -ite ¹

Example Sentences

There can be no doubt, however, that at least the basis of the Egyptian cosmogony must have been the common property of all the Hamite nations, of which Egypt was the greatest and most permanent; and therefore in all probability derived from the ideas of creation which were current not long after the Deluge.

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We have the servile ornament, in which the executive is absolutely subjected to the inventive,—the ornament of the great Eastern nations, more especially Hamite, and all pre-Christian, yet thoroughly noble in its submissiveness.

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It is quite monosyllabic, with the Hamite or African structure, having its affinities all over Africa, where hardly any except the Qua or Hottentot nation are of Chinese? or Turanic descent by structure of speech.

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But it appears to me that the Celts and Cantabrians were like the Etruscans and Phenicians of Hamite Origin.

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He wrote back that the words were Egyptian or a kindred Hamite tongue.

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