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nabataean

/ˌnæ.bəˈtiː.ən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English

Syllables
Na-ba-tae-an
IPA
/ˌnæ.bəˈtiː.ən/
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The ancient inhabitants of Nabataea, a region of Arabia inhabited by the Nabataeans that covers parts of northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, lying between Arabia and Syria, and stretching from the Euphrates river to the Red Sea. During the Hellenistic Period, the Nabataeans were involved in a nexus of trade routes reaching as far as Italy to the west and India to the east, which centered at their city of Petra in what is now Western Jordan near the Negev Desert from before 310 BCE until the Roman conquest in 106 CE.

noun

Any of a group of people who once lived around modern Jordan.

name

The language of those people.

adj

Relating to the Nabataean people, their kings, art, architecture, religion, language, or script.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Nabataeus (“Nabataean”), which was borrowed from Ancient Greek Ναβαταῖος (Nabataîos, “Nabataean”), which was borrowed from Nabataean Aramaic 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 (nbṭw, “Nabataean”). Possibly cognate with Arabic نَبَطِيّ (nabaṭiyy, “Nabataean, Nabaṭ”), Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ), and Hebrew נבטים (nabaṭim, “Nabataeans”), and Hebrew נבטית (nabaṭit, “Nabataean (adj.)”), all of which might be ultimately derived from the same Semitic root, perhaps Proto-Semitic *nabat-, possibly cognate with Akkadian nabāṭu ("to shine brightly").

Word Breakdown

  • Root: 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈

Inflected Forms

Nabataeans (plural) Nabatean (alternative) Nabathaean (alternative) Nabathean (alternative) Nabathite (alternative) Nabatæan (alternative, archaic) Nabathæan (alternative, archaic) more Nabataean (comparative) most Nabataean (superlative)

Synonyms

Nabathite Nabatean

Rhymes With

aegean andean abelian judean aramean archaean sabaean mandaean erythraean cumaean nicaean damoclean

Questions

How do you pronounce nabataean?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌnæ.bəˈtiː.ən/.
What does nabataean mean?
The ancient inhabitants of Nabataea, a region of Arabia inhabited by the Nabataeans that covers parts of northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, lying between Arabia and Syria, and stretching from the Euphrates river to the Red Sea. During the Hellenistic Period, the Nabataeans were involved in a nexus of trade routes reaching as far as Italy to the west and India to the east, which centered at their city of Petra in what is now Western Jordan near the Negev Desert from before 310 BCE until the Roman conquest in 106 CE.
Where does nabataean come from?
Borrowed from Latin Nabataeus (“Nabataean”), which was borrowed from Ancient Greek Ναβαταῖος (Nabataîos, “Nabataean”), which was borrowed from Nabataean Aramaic 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 (nbṭw, “Nabataean”). Possibly cognate with Arabic نَبَطِيّ (nabaṭiyy, “Nabataean, Nabaṭ”), Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ), and Hebrew נבטים (nabaṭim, “Nabataeans”), and Hebrew נבטית (nabaṭit, “Nabataean (adj.)”), all of which might be ultimately derived from the same Semitic root, perhaps Proto-Semitic *nabat-, possibly cognate with Akkadian nabāṭu ("to shine brightly").

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