| Sabir |
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noun
- a pidgin language based on French and used in parts of North Africa and the Mediterranean
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| Salish |
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noun
- a group of Native American peoples of the north-western United States and British Columbia
- a member of this group
- the family of languages of these people
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| Samaritan |
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proper noun
- A native, or inhabitant of Samaria.
- (context, UK, plural only) A telephone helpline providing support to those at risk of suicide.
adjective
- Of, or relating to Samaria or Samaritans.
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| Sami |
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noun (plural: or Samis)
- A member of the nomadic people of Lapland.
proper noun
- Any of the languages of the Sami.
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| Samoan |
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noun - A person from Samoa or of Samoan descent.
- The Samoan language.
adjective (no (compar) or (superl))
- Of, from, or pertaining to Samoa, the Samoan people or the Samoan language.
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| Samoyed |
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proper noun
- a member of the Nenets people of the Siberian Urals; they speak Samoyedic languages
- a hardy breed of dog from Siberia
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| Samoyedic |
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proper noun (wikipedia, Samoyedic languages)
- any of a group of languages spoken in the Urals, that, along with Finno-Ugric, make up the Uralic language group.
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| Sango |
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proper noun (wikipedia, Sango_(language))
- The primary language spoken in the Central African Republic: it has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.
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| Sanskrit |
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proper noun
- Any of the Old Indic languages, especially Classical Sanskrit, a language of ancient India still important to Hinduism and Buddhism.
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| Saxon |
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proper noun
- A member of an ancient northern Germanic tribe, that invaded England, together with Angles and Frisians about the year 600
- A native of Saxony
- The language of the ancient Saxons
adjective
- Of, or relating to the Saxons, Saxony, or the Saxon language
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| Scandinavian |
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noun
- Someone from Scandinavia.
adjective
- Of Scandinavia.
- (Of a language) Of the North Germanic family to which Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.
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| Scot |
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proper noun (Scots)
- A person born in or native to Scotland.
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| Scotch |
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proper noun (es, -)
- (as a plural noun) The people of Scotland (less correct than Scots or Scottish).
- The Scottish dialect of English.
- (uncountable) Whisky made in Scotland
- (countable) Any variety of Scotch.
- (countable) A glass of Scotch.
adjective
- Of or from Scotland.
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| Scots |
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noun
- (plural of, Scot)
proper noun
- A Germanic language closely related to English and descended from northern dialects of Old English, spoken in parts of w:Scotland, Scotland, now especially in the central, northeastern and southern regions of the country.
adjective
- Scottish
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| Scots Gaelic |
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noun
- The Gaelic language spoken in Scotland.
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| Scottish |
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proper noun
- The people of Scotland.
adjective
- Of a person, native to or born in Scotland.
- Of a thing or concept, of or pertaining to Scotland.
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| Scottish Gaelic |
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noun
- The Gaelic language of Scotland, spoken primarily in the northern and western parts of the country.
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| Semite |
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proper noun
- a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadian, Akkadians, Phoenician, Phoenicians, Hebrew, Hebrews, and Arab, Arabs.
- descendant of these peoples.
- a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language.
- a descendant of the biblical Patriarch Shem.
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| Semitic |
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noun
- The Semitic languages in general.
adjective
- Relating to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic w:Semitic languages, Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian (Syriac), Babylonian (Akkadian), Israeli (Hebrew), Maltese, Tigrigna, et al.
- Relating to the Semites: Semitic people.
- Relating (biblically) to descendants of w:Shem, Shem, the eldest of three w:Sons of Noah, sons of Noah.
- Relating (more narrowly) to the Israel, Israeli, Jewish, or Hebrew people.
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| Serb |
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proper noun
- A person of Serb descent (not necessarily from Serbia).
adjective
- of or pertaining to the culture of the Serbs; Serbian
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| Serbian |
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noun
- Serb
- A person from the Balkan country of Serbia.
proper noun
- A South Slavic language spoken in the Balkans.
(trans-top, The Serbian language)
- Albanian: serbishte
- Armenian: Õ½Õ¥Ö�Õ¢Õ¥Ö�Õ¥Õ¶ (serberen)
- Arabic: (ARchar, ا�صرب�ة) (a�-�arbīya)
- Bosnian: srpski
- Bosnian, srpski
- Bulgarian: ���б�ки (sr�bski)
- Catalan: serbi,
- Chinese:
- :Simplified: å¡�å°�ç»´äº�è¯ (SÄ�iÄ�rwéiyí yÇ�)
- :Traditional: å¡�ç�¾ç¶äº�èª�
- Croatian: srpski
- Croatian, srpski
- Czech: srbština
- Danish: serbisk
- Dutch: Servisch
- Esperanto: serba lingvo
- Estonian: serbia, serbia keel
- Faroese: serbiskt
- Filipino: Serbian, Serbyo
- Finnish: serbia, serbian kieli
- French: serbe
- Georgian: á�¡á��á� á��á�£á��á�� (serbuli)
- German: Serbisch
- Greek: ΣεÏ�βικά (Servikí¡)
- Hebrew: סר��ת (servit)
- Hindi: सर�ब� (sarbī), सर�बिया� (sarbiy�ī), सर�बियन (sarbiyan)
- Hungarian: szerb, szerbí¼l
- Icelandic: serbneska
- Interlingua: serbo
- Italian: serbo
- Irish: Seirbís,
- Japanese: ����� (serubia-go)
- Korean: �르��� (sereubia-eo)
- Kurdish: serbí®, (KUchar, سربÛ�)
- Latvian: serbu
- Macedonian: ��п�ки
- Macedonian, ��п�ки
- Norwegian: serbisk
(trans-mid)
- Nepali: सर�बियाल� (sarbiy�lī)
- Persian: (FAchar, صرب�) (sarbi)
- Polish: serbski
- Portuguese: sérvio
- Russian: �е�б�кий
- Serbian:
- :Cyrillic: ��п�ки
- Serbian, ��п�ки
- :Roman: srpski
- Serbian, srpski
- Sindhi: (SDchar, سرب�, س�رب��) (sarbī)
- Slovak: srb�ina
- Slovene: srbš�ina
- Swahili: kiserbia
- Swedish: serbiska
- Tagalog: Serbyo
- Thai: (THchar, ภาษาà¹�à¸�à¸à¸£à¹�à¹�à¸�ียà¸�) (paasÄ�a serbian)
- Turkish: Sırpí§a
- Turkmen:
- :Cyrillic: �е�б�е
- :Roman: serbí§e
- Urdu: (URchar, صرب�) (sarbī)
- Uyghur: (FAchar, سÛ�رپÚ�Û�) (serbí§e)
- Uzbek:
- :Cyrillic: �е�б�а
- :Roman: serbí§a
- Vietnamese: tiếng Xéc-bi
- Volapí¼k: Sí¤rbí¤napí¼k
- Yiddish: סער��ש (serbiš)
- Xhosa: isi-Serbia
- Zulu: isi-Sebhiya
(trans-bottom)
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Serbia and Serbians
- Of or pertaining to Serbian language
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| Serbo-Croatian |
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noun
- the Serbian and Croatian languages considered as a unit during the existence of Yugoslavia. Today it is used as an umbrella term for the languages of Central South Slavic diasystem (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian).
adjective - pertaining to the Serbo-Croatian language
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| Sesotho |
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proper noun
- African ethnic group living mainly in Free State and Gauteng Provinces in central South Africa.
- An individual member of this group.
- The Bantu language of these people.
adjective
- Pertaining to the Basotho people or culture, or language.
- In or pertaining to the Sesotho language.
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| Shan |
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noun
- A people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people.
- The language of this people, in the Tai-Kadai language family.
- A state in Thailand.
adjective - Of or pertaining to the Shan people or the Shan language.
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| Shawnee |
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proper noun
- a Native American people from Ohio; a member of this tribe; their language
- a female given name, derived from the people
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| Shelta |
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proper noun
- an Irish cant in which the position of consonants are inverted
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| Shona |
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proper noun
- A language spoken in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
- The Bantu tribes who speak Shona.
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| Shoshone |
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proper noun
- An amerind ethnic group of North America, especially of Wyoming and Idaho.
- The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Shoshone people.
- The w:Shoshone National Forest, Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.
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| Siamese |
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noun
- The Siamese cat
proper noun
- The Thai language
adjective
- Of, or relating to Siam; Thai
- Of a connection of tubes or hoses shaped like a letter Y.
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| Siegfried |
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proper noun - (Germanic mythology) Hero of the Nibelungenlied who defeated the Icelandic queen
- A male given name of Germanic origin
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| Singhalese |
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noun
- Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sri Lanka.
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| Sinhalese |
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noun
- Indo-Aryan language of about 12,000,000 non-Tamil people of Sri Lanka.
- A Sinhalese person.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Sri Lanka
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| Siouan |
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adjective
- Of or relating to the Sioux people, culture or languages.
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| Sioux |
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proper noun
- Name applied to various formerly nomadic Native American tribes of the North American Great Plains.
- The group of languages spoken by the Sioux.
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| Slav |
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noun
- A person of Slavic origins.
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| Slavic |
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adjective
- Of the Slavs, their culture or languages.
- Another word for Slavonic or Sclavonic.
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| Slavonic |
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noun
- A branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into three subbranches:
- South Slavonic (including Old Church Slavonic, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, etc.)
- East Slavonic (including Ukrainian, Russian, etc.), and
- West Slavonic (including Polish, Czech, Slovak, etc.)
- The unrecorded ancient language from which all of these languages developed.
adjective
- Of, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages.
- Of, denoting, or relating to Slavonia and its inhabitants.
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| Slovak |
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noun
- A person from Slovakia or of Slovak descent.
proper noun
- The language of Slovakia.
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to Slovakia, the Slovak people or the Slovak language.
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| Slovene |
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noun
- A person from Slovenia
proper noun
- The official language of Slovenia
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Slovenia, the Slovenian people or the Slovenian language.
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| Somali |
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noun
- A language spoken mainly in Somalia.
- A person from Somalia or of Somali descent.
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to Somalia, the Somali people or language.
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| Sorb |
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noun (pl. Sorbs)
- a Slavic people living in parts of East Germany
- any person belonging to this people
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| Sorbian |
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noun
- A group of Slavic languages spoken by a minority in eastern Germany.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Sorbs or to the Sorbian language.
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| Sotho |
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proper noun
- a certain Bantu language spoken in South Africa and Lesotho; another name for Sesotho.
- a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and Zambia.
- a person who speaks Sesotho or (rarely) a person who speaks any language from this group of Bantu languages.
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| South African |
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noun
- A person from South Africa or of South African descent.
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to South Africa, or the South African people.
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| southern |
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adjective
- Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
- Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe.
- The southern climate.
- Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.
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| Spaniard |
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noun
- Somebody born or living in w:Spain, Spain.
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| Spanish |
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proper noun
- (singular) The official language of Spain.
- (the Spanish; collective plural) People native to Spain.
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to Spain.
- Of or pertaining to the Spanish language.
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| Sranan |
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proper noun
- the Sranantongo English-based creole of Suriname.
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| Sudeten |
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proper noun
- a series of mountains in Central Europe (Czechia, Poland, Germany).
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| Sukuma |
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proper noun
- an indigenous people of Tanzania
- the Bantu language of this people
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| sulu |
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noun
- an all-purpose garment worn by men and women in Fiji that to Westerners resembles a skirt.
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| Sumerian |
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noun
- A person of Sumer.
- A native of lower Babylonia, called Å umer in Akkadian.
- The ancient language spoken in Sumer, a language isolate.
adjective
- Of, from or pertaining to Sumer.
- Of, from or pertaining lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Å umer in Akkadian.
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| Sundanese |
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proper noun
- An ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 31 million.
- The language of the Sundanese people. The language is also known as Basa Sunda.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the people.
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| Swahili |
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noun
- an agglutinative language widely spoken in East Africa. Born of the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.
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| Swazi |
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noun
- A person from Swaziland or of Swazi descent.
- Translations
- German: Swasi
- Spanish: suazi, suazilandés
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to Swaziland, the Swazi people or the Swazi language.
- Translations
- German: swasilí¤ndisch
- Spanish: suazilandés
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| Swede |
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proper noun (plural Swedes)
- A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.
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| Swedish |
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proper noun
- The language of w:Sweden, Sweden and í�land (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Sweden.
- Of or pertaining to the language.
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| Swiss |
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proper noun
- A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland, the Swiss people or the Swiss language.
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| Syriac |
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proper noun (plural: Syriacs)
- An Aramaic language, part of the Semitic language group, specifically:
- The language of the kingdom of Osrhoene.
- The liturgical language of various churches with roots in the Middle East.
- A person who either speaks Syriac or is a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or both.
adjective
- Referring to the Syriac language, for example, Syriac alphabet, Syriac culture, Syriac poetry.
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