Qatabanicadj.n.
/ˌkatəˈbanɪk/, U.S. /ˌkædəˈbɑnɪk/ A. adj.
= Qatabanian adj. rare.
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1905 H. Ranke in Res. & Treat. Babylonian Exped. Univ. Pennsylvania: Ser. D III. 36 It is not impossible that ḫammu is the Canaanitish word ‘family, people’, or even the Katabanic god עם.
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet II. ii. 226 The South Arabian inscriptions..are generally divided into five groups: The Minaean..the Sabaean..the Himyaritic..the Qatabanic and the Hadhramautic.
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= Qatabanian n. 2.
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Qatabanic1943
1943 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 63 4 This article will consider the phonology, the morphology and the vocabulary... In South-Arabic are included:..Qatabanic (Qat.), Hadramitic (Hadr.). Aswanic.
1984 A. F. L. Beeston Sabaic Gram. 1 We can discern four principal languages, which have come to be designated by scholars as Minaic (or Minaean), Sabaic, Qatabanic (though the name of the folk is probably vocalised as Qitban).
1986 Language 62 469 Short accounts of Minaic, Qatabanic, and Hadramitic, in which the information is mostly restricted to the differences with Sabaic.
2001 R. G. Hoyland Arabia & Arabs 200 The principal members of the southern group of languages are: Sabaic, Minaic (or Madhabic), Qatabanic and Hadramitic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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