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Amorite

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1. Amorite - Noun

2. Amorite - Adjective

3. Amorite - Proper noun

Meaning

English Wikipedia has an article on:AmoriteWikipedia
Amorite (plural Amorites)

A member of an ancient Semitic people who lived to the west of the Euphrates

Amorite

The language of this people

Of or pertaining to this people or language

Of or pertaining to the god Amurru (or Martu), worshipped by these people

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At some point in the early second millennium BCE, the Northwest Semitic speaking Amorite kingdom of Mari to the south subdued Urkesh and made it a vassal state. Source: Internet

An Amorite chieftain named Sumu-abum founded Babylon as an independent city-state in 1894 BC. Source: Internet

Babylonia was an Amorite state in lower Mesopotamia (modern southern Iraq ), with Babylon as its capital. Source: Internet

One of these Amorite dynasties was established in the city-state of Babylon, which would ultimately take over the others and form the first Babylonian empire, during what is also called the Old Babylonian Period. Source: Internet

Personal names including the stem ʾl are found with similar patterns in both Amorite and South Arabic—which indicates that probably already in Proto-Semitic ʾl was both a generic term for "god" and the common name or title of a single particular god. Source: Internet

Samsu-Ditana was to be the last Amorite ruler of Babylon. Source: Internet

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