Thamudicadj.n.
/θəˈmuːdɪk/ A. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or designating a class of inscriptions in northern and central Arabia dating from the 5th to the 1st centuries b.c., or the ancient Semitic language of which they are the only evidence.
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Thamudaean1909
Thamudic1909
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 651/1 These inscriptions have been called ‘Thamudic’, because they were found in the country of the Thamúd.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Thamudic, of or pert. to certain old Semitic inscriptions in characters resembling the Sabæan but perh. earlier.
1951 A. M. Honeyman in H. H. Rowley Old Testament & Mod. Study ix. 270 A new Pars Quinta has been projected to cover the Safaitic, Lihyanite, and Thamudic material.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 921/2 Recent archaeological work has revealed numerous Thamūdic rock writings and pictures not only on Mt. Athlith but also throughout central Arabia.
2. Of or pertaining to the Thamūd, a tribe that lived in northern Arabia between the 4th century b.c. and the 7th century a.d.
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Pathan1625
Afghan1742
Rohilla1768
Kurdish1806
Kurd1810
Hindki1815
Mohmand1815
Chorasmian1816
Hazara1826
Kaffir1834
Afghani1838
Zakka Khel1860
Pakhtun1867
Powindah1880
Thamudite1881
Sart1898
Thamudaean1909
Tajik1911
Thamudic1937
1937 P. K. Hitti Hist. Arabs vi. 72 The Lihyānites seem also to have held..al-Hijr..once a Thamūdic town.
B. n.
The Thamudic language.
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Thamudic1937
Thamudian1981
1937 F. V. Winnett Study Lihyanite & Thamudic Inscr. 27 In view of the fact that it has the value zāi in both Lihyanite and Ethiopic, there is little likelihood of its having a different value in Thamudic.
1952 Harding & Littmann Some Thamudic Inscr. 47 In Thamudic and Safaïtic the verb..often means ‘he acquired, he bought’.
Derivatives
Thamuˈdaean adj. (also Thaˈmudene)
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Afghanistan and Turkestan > [adjective]
Pathan1625
Afghan1742
Rohilla1768
Kurdish1806
Kurd1810
Hindki1815
Mohmand1815
Chorasmian1816
Hazara1826
Kaffir1834
Afghani1838
Zakka Khel1860
Pakhtun1867
Powindah1880
Thamudite1881
Sart1898
Thamudaean1909
Tajik1911
Thamudic1937
the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Semitic > Arabic > of specific Arabic languages > Thamudic
Thamudaean1909
Thamudic1909
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Thamudene adj.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 956/2 The Thamudaean inscriptions are locally nearer to Phoenicia, and the letters are more like the Phoenician.
1934 J. A. Montgomery Arabia & Bible v. 91 A peculiar and much discussed special type of Arabic inscriptions, the Thamudene, has been discovered.
1936 Encycl. Islam III. 27/1 The Ṯẖamūdaean graffiti..are a development (later or parallel) of the Liḥyānī script.
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. ii. 227 The North Arabian inscriptions..can be separated into three groups: (1) Thamudene or Thamudic... (2) The Dedanite inscriptions... (3) The Safaitic or Safahitic inscriptions.
Thamuˈdenic adj.
Thamudian adj. and n.
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Thamudic1937
Thamudian1981
1981 Word 1980 31 222 We have here an important isogloss for the chronological division of the Semitic languages into languages with š.., languages with h (Amorite, Hebrew,..and Thamudian), languages with '.., and languages with y.
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