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单词 yemenite
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Yemeniten.adj.

/ˈjɛmənʌɪt/
Etymology: In sense A. 1 < an earlier form of the personal name Benjamin. In senses A. 2 and A. 3 < Yemeni n. + -ite suffix1.
A. n.
1. A member of a family belonging to the tribe of Benjamin. Obsolete.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > of specific dynasties or sects
Levite1377
Rechabitea1382
Simeonite1530
Danite1535
Yemenite1566
Hasmonean1583
1566 Bible: 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.
1568 Bible (Bishops') 1 Sam. ix. 21 Am not I the sonne of a Jeminite.
2. = Yemeni n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Iran, Iraq, or the Gulf > [noun]
MedeeOE
Persianc1375
Persec1384
Medianc1400
Lydian1545
Mesopotamian1553
Meccana1618
Ma'dan1792
Omanic1819
Iraqi1824
Yemenite1864
Sumerian1873
Akkadian1908
Yemeni1916
Marsh Arab1917
Medinese1922
Iraqian1923
Kuwaiti1928
Tehrani1939
Qatari1954
1864 J. T. Thomson Some Glimpses Life Far East lviii. 323 By race he was a Yemenite.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 518/2 The Yemenites rashly invited Turkish intervention.
1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate iv. 91 Those Arab girls, those Yemenites, Syrians, those Israelites, Samaritans.
1976 C. 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.
3. A Jew who was, or whose ancestors were, formerly resident in Yemen.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > of specific area
the Dispersion1382
Oriental Jew1659
diaspora1694
Polack1834
Ashkenazim1839
Hebraist1892
Litvak1892
Peruvian Jew1897
Tudesco1897
halutzim1921
Yemenite1926
Ostjuden1934
Sabra1945
Yekke1950
refusenik1973
1926 tr. 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).
1935 A. Revusky Jews in Palestine xii. 206 The Sephardim and Yemenites, the two main groups of Oriental Jews.
B. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or designating a Yemeni Arab or a Yemeni Jew.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [adjective] > Yemeni Arab or Jew
Yemenite1876
1876 R. D. Osborn Islam under Arabs iii. i. 296 The Yemenite Arabs of Syria were known as the Kelbites.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 329/2 The present Sultan, a descendant of those Yemenite Imams who consolidated Arab power in Zanzibar.
1926 Sunday at Home July 636/1 Another industry which has been revived in Jerusalem is the silver filigree work of the Yemenite Jews.
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. v. 279 Fierce-looking Yemenite gun-molls, Sephardi beauties.
1955 S. N. Eisenstadt in Public Opinion Q. XIX. 156 (heading) Communication in a traditional Yemenite community.
1978 Church 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.
1982 D. Wiltse Wedding Guest ix. 113 He was an Arab, but he could have been anything from Moroccan to Yemenite.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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