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English
Etymology
From Himyarite + -ic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌhɪm.jəˈrɪ.tɪk/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɪtɪk
- Hyphenation: Him‧ya‧ri‧tic, Him‧ya‧rit‧ic
Proper noun
Himyaritic
- (obsolete) Old South Arabian.
- (historiography) Any language or dialect belonging to Himyarites and reported from an ancient Arabic perspective as peculiar.
2007, Christian Robin, edited by Versteegh, Kees, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 257b:If the traditional Arab and Islamic scholars are to be believed, the Ḥimyaritic language was incomprehensible to a speaker of Arabic.
- An imagined Semitic language belonging to the Himyarites who however generally wrote Sabaean.
Adjective
Himyaritic (comparative more Himyaritic, superlative most Himyaritic)
- Related or belonging to the aforementioned language or language group.
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