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Yemenite, n. and a.|ˈjɛmənaɪt|
[Sense a (see below); senses b, c f. prec. + -ite1.]
A. n.
†a. [f. an earlier form of the personal name.] A member of a family belonging to the tribe of Benjamin. Obs.
b. = Yemeni n.c. A Jew who was, or whose ancestors were, formerly resident in the Yemen.
1566Bible 1. Sam. ix. 21 Am not I the sonne of a Jaminite of the smallest tribe of Israel: and my kyured is the leest of all the kyuredes of the trybe of Ben Jamin. 1568Ibid., Am not I the sonne of a Jeminite. 1864J. T. Thomson Some Glimpses Life Far East lviii. 323 By race he was a Yemenite. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 518/2 The Yemenites rashly invited Turkish intervention. 1926tr. Granovsky's Land Prob. Palestine i. 18 The history of Jewish colonization in Palestine shows many attempts to create a class of Jewish farm laborers..by establishing small settlements for Yemenites (Jewish immigrants from Southern Arabia). 1935A. Revusky Jews in Palestine xii. 206 The Sephardim and Yemenites, the two main groups of Oriental Jews. 1965M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate iv. 91 Those Arab girls, those Yemenites, Syrians, those Israelites, Samaritans. 1976C. Bermant Coming Home ii. iii. 154 One of those private schools..basically..for the sons of Arab oil sheiks, but it also housed..tall, lean Persians, tiny, dusky Yemenites, a few bombastic Greeks.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating a Yemeni Arab or a Yemeni Jew.
1876R. D. Osborn Islam under Arabs iii. i. 296 The Yemenite Arabs of Syria were known as the Kelbites. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 329/2 The present Sultan, a descendant of those Yemenite Imams who consolidated Arab power in Zanzibar. 1926Sunday at Home July 636/1 Another industry which has been revived in Jerusalem is the silver filigree work of the Yemenite Jews. 1949[see gun moll s.v. gun n. 17]. 1955S. N. Eisenstadt in Public Opinion Q. XIX. 156 (heading) Communication in a traditional Yemenite community. 1978Church Times 16 June 11/2 In the Flea Market [of Tel Aviv]..the Guide did not want us to miss the sight of Arabs buying from Yemenite salesmen. 1982D. Wiltse Wedding Guest ix. 113 He was an Arab, but he could have been anything from Moroccan to Yemenite. |