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Hamitic

Hamitic adjective: of or pertaining to the Hamites or to the Hamitic languages.

Adjective

Hamitic

  1. of or pertaining to the Hamites or to the Hamitic languages.
    • Miisi had worked hard in school to show that despite his Hamitic condition he was clever and could be good.2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 313

Proper noun

Hamitic

  1. (historical) A name formerly applied to those Afroasiatic languages that are not Semitic languages; a cover term (no longer used) for the Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, and Omotic languages.

Hamitic meaning in Bengali

Hamitic in Bengali

relative to the Hamites
হামীয় hamiẏô

Origin of Hamitic

From Hamite + -ic.

Words formed from Hamitic

Questions about Hamitic

What does Hamitic mean?
Hamitic means of or pertaining to the Hamites or to the Hamitic languages.
What is Hamitic in Bengali?
Hamitic in Bengali is হামীয় (hamiẏô). See Hamitic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Hamitic?
Hamitic can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Hamitic in the dictionary

  1. Hamir
  2. Hamirpur
  3. Hamish
  4. hamite
  5. hamites
  6. Hamitic
  7. Hamiticist
  8. Hamiticists
  9. Hamiticized
  10. Hamitism
  11. Hamito-

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