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Khamite

Khamite is the alternative form of Hamite.

Meaning of Hamite

Noun

Hamite (plural Hamites)

  1. A descendant of Ham, son of Noah, a member of the nations or peoples supposedly descended from Ham, i.e. the North African and the Horn African peoples.
    • And when in history he was taught about the Africans as Hamites who had been cursed by Noah, everything including his family, his people and the priests fell into place.2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 313

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Forms of Khamite

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Questions about Khamite

What is Khamite the alternative form of?
Khamite is the alternative form of Hamite.

Words near Khamite in the dictionary

  1. Khamdang
  2. Khamedoost
  3. Khamenchatpa
  4. Khamenei
  5. Khamil
  6. Khamite
  7. Khamites
  8. Khamitic
  9. Khamlangba
  10. Khamlangpa
  11. Khammam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Khamite (page history and authors); Hamite (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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