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1. abjad, n. View full entry 1793
...A system of notation in which each of the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet is assigned a numerical value. Now chiefly hist....
2. dagesh | daghesh, n. View full entry 1591
...A point or dot placed within a Hebrew letter, denoting either that it is doubled (dagesh forte), or that it is not aspirated (dagesh lene)....
3. hamza, n. View full entry 1813
...In the Arabic script, an orthographic sign representing an unvoiced glottal occlusive (and functioning in Arabic as a consonant); also, the sound so represented....
4. heemantic, adj. View full entry a1638
...Applied to those Hebrew letters which are used in the formation of derivative words and inflexional forms....
5. Hittite, n. and adj. View full entry 1608
...In the Bible (Gen. xv. 20, etc.), one of a Canaanitic or Syrian tribe of greater or less extent, perh. an offshoot of the next....
6. Hobson-Jobson, n. View full entry 1634
...Anglicized form of the repeated wailings and cries of Muslims as they beat their breasts in the Muharram procession; hence this festal ceremony. Also transf....
7. makaf, n. View full entry 1593
...A Hebrew diacritic, similar in form to a hyphen, indicating that words joined by it should be pronounced as if they were a single word....
8. Mesopotamia, n. View full entry 1827
...Used as the type of a word which is long, pleasant-sounding, and incomprehensible (see quot. 1870). Hence used allusively of any speech which gives irrational or inexplicable comfort...
9. mimation, n. View full entry 1873
...The appending of m to the flexional vowels in Semitic languages, esp. Akkadian. Cf. nunation...
10. nunated, adj. View full entry 1841
...Of a form in a Semitic language, esp. Arabic: pronounced with a final n-sound; having the addition of a final n. Cf. nunation1....
11. nunation, n. View full entry 1776
...Semitic Grammar. Now usu. in form nunation. The addition of a final n-sound to the pronunciation of the indefinite forms of certain nouns and adjectives in Arabic;...
12. satem, n. View full entry 1901
...A name given by philologists to one, chiefly eastern, group of Indo-European languages, distinguished by their use of sibilants where the corresponding sounds in cognate words in the western group (cf. ...
13. shadda, n. View full entry 1896
...In Arabic, a sign, also called tašdīd, written or printed above a consonant to indicate that it is doubled....
14. sheva, n. View full entry 1582
...Hebrew Grammar....
15. † ˈtaghmical, adj. View full entry 1698
...Of or pertaining to the Hebrew written accents as determining the syntactical structure and hence the meaning of passages (as understood by the Masoretes)....
