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Ara·maic (-mā′ik)

noun

a Northwest Semitic language that was the lingua franca throughout the Near East from c. 300 to c. 650: it replaced Hebrew as the language of the Jews, and one of its dialects was spoken by Jesus and his disciples

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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