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Edomite

Syllables: E·do·mite/ˈiː.dəˌmaɪt/[ˈiɾɪ̈mʌɪ̯t̚]

Edomite noun: a person descended from Esau (Edom).

Noun

Edomite (plural Edomites)

  1. A person descended from Esau (Edom).
    • And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 36:9

Proper noun

Edomite

  1. A Canaanite Semitic language spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan in the first millennium BCE, extinct from the 6th century BCE.

Edomite meaning in Hindi and Bengali

Edomite in Hindi

person descended from Esau (Edom)
एदोमी edomī
the Semitic language of the Edomites
एदोमी edomī

Edomite in Bengali

এষৌ থেকে বংশোদ্ভূত ব্যক্তি

Forms of Edomite

pluralEdomites

Origin of Edomite

From Edom + -ite.

Questions about Edomite

What does Edomite mean?
Edomite means a person descended from Esau (Edom).
What is Edomite in Hindi?
Edomite in Hindi is एदोमी (edomī). See Edomite meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Edomite?
Edomite can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Edomite?
Edomite is pronounced /ˈiː.dəˌmaɪt/.
What is the plural of Edomite?
The plural of Edomite is Edomites.

Words near Edomite in the dictionary

  1. Edoid
  2. Edolene
  3. Edom
  4. Edomae
  5. Edomex
  6. Edomite
  7. Edomites
  8. Edomitic
  9. Edomitish
  10. edonentan
  11. Edones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Edomite (page history and authors); Edomite (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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