Ugaritic

American  

[oo-guh-rit-ik, yoo-] / ˌu gəˈrɪt ɪk, ˌyu- /

adjective

1. of or relating to Ugarit, its people, or their language.

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noun

1. Also Ugaritian the Semitic language of the Ugaritic people, related to Hebrew and Phoenician and written in a cuneiform alphabet having 30 characters.

Ugaritic British  

/ ˌuːɡəˈrɪtɪk /

noun

1. an extinct Semitic language of N Syria

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adjective

1. of or relating to this language

Etymology

Origin of Ugaritic

First recorded in 1935–40; Ugarit + -ic

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, proxy statements have gotten so incomprehensible, they might as well be written in Ugaritic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2011

By comparing Ugaritic texts with Hebrew, scholars have been able to recover the original meaning of many Hebrew words.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dahood, a professor of Ugaritic at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, draws on the Ras Shamra discoveries to correct and sometimes drastically change a number of obscure and, so he believes, previously misinterpreted passages in Psalms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tablets in Ugaritic that have been unearthed by archaeologists told them that the rare Hebrew word mimsah in Proverbs 23: 30 means "cups," not "wine" as previously translated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ugaritic mythology: a study of its leading motifs.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office