Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Semitic

Semitic , adjective

Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races.
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Semitic language , a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phonician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). — Encyc. Brit