ARAMAIC


Meaning of ARAMAIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˈmā-ik ]

noun

Date: 1828

: a Semitic language known since the ninth century B.C. as the speech of the Aramaeans and later used extensively in southwest Asia as a commercial and governmental language and adopted as their customary speech by various non-Aramaean peoples including the Jews after the Babylonian exile

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.