Semiticistn.
/sᵻˈmɪtᵻsɪst/, U.S. /səˈmɪdəsəst/ A person who studies Semitic languages, literature, etc.; = Semitist n.
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1882 Knowledge 27 Jan. 269/1 The Turanianists and Semiticists..remember that in the old ethnological list.., Cash is said..to be a son..of Ham.
1904 Amer. Antiquarian 26 75 Coming to the text of the papyrus, it will be better for its contents to be threshed out by Semiticists before giving a full translation.
2010 Jewish Q. Rev. 100 363 A Baghdadi Jew born in Jerusalem, Yahuda was a celebrated Semiticist who moved comfortably between studies of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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