What's the difference between aramaic and palmyra?
Aramaic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee.
(n.) The Aramaic language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Motion pictures based on events that took place a long time ago can play fast and loose with the facts, particularly if Mel Gibson is the director: William Wallace never met Queen Isabella, wife of the unfortunate Edward II; the British army did not make a policy of incinerating American civilians in churches during the revolutionary war; it was the Romans, not the Jews, who killed Christ, and it is doubtful that anyone involved in his crucifixion spoke Aramaic.
(2) It was interesting but I couldn't cut it in Aramaic."
(3) "We came for Lebanon's future to show that we will not be scared," said Arama Fakhouri, an interior designer from Beirut in the cheering crowd.
(4) A tourist attraction before the civil war erupted in March 2011, some of Maaloula's residents still speak a version of Aramaic, a biblical language spoken by Jesus.
Palmyra
Definition:
(n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The damaged sign of the city council of Palmyra.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A general view taken on Sunday shows part of the ancient city of Palmyra, after government troops recaptured the Unesco world heritage site.
(3) Activists have filmed tanks and rocket launchers being deployed in the archaeological area in Palmyra.
(4) For Azm, if ancient Palmyra were destroyed its loss would go far beyond mere rocks and stones.
(5) As such, it was surprising that Asaad chose to remain in Palmyra .
(6) In May, masked men abducted Syrian priest Jacques Mourad, from the Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain, near the Isis-held ancient city of Palmyra.
(7) The first images to emerge from the ancient city of Palmyra after Syrian regime forces expelled Islamic State fighters have shown large swaths of destruction but also suggest that several important archaeological sites are intact.
(8) Photograph: Ahmad Joudeh Soon afterwards he was filmed dancing in the ancient Roman theatre of Palmyra - the site, just a few months earlier, of mass executions by Isis.
(9) Before the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, more than 150,000 tourists visited Palmyra every year.
(10) Last month, however, it began what now appears to be the beginning of a systematic campaign to erase Palmyra’s history.
(11) Militants from the terror group seized a small Syrian military base and station near Palmyra, a day after routing government forces from the ancient city.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amateur video purports to show people burning a portrait of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Palmyra after the historic city fell under Isis control Local activists said Isis had imposed a curfew and was sweeping the city for remnants of Assad’s forces.
(13) Palmyra – what the world has lost Read more They include “all the Christian churches in Mosul, most of the monasteries – some of the earliest Christian sites in the world”.
(14) Days after Isis captured Palmyra in late May the terrorist group killed 20 men in the same location, which had formerly been used for an annual festival in the city and is a Unesco world heritage site.
(15) I am deeply concerned by the situation at the site of Palmyra.
(16) In an article for the Guardian , Syria’s director of antiquities, Maamoun Abdelkarim, said a team of archaeologists would go to Palmyra in the coming days to assess the damage to its monuments, and pledged to rebuild the destroyed temples and arch.
(17) Moscow’s elite military units had been on the ground when Palmyra was recaptured from Isis for the first time last March and were again present over the past month.
(18) I further call on the international community to do everything in its power to protect the affected civilian population and safeguard the unique cultural heritage of Palmyra.” However, Isis has often cherished its destruction of cultural artefacts, releasing long, well-produced videos of their destruction of objects in the Mosul Museum and their detonation and bulldozing of much of the ancient fortress city of Hatra in Iraq.
(19) At least 14 civilians are reported to have been executed by Isil in Palmyra this week,” she said, using another acronym for Islamic State .
(20) Our planes in Syria do not strike populated areas and especially ones with architectural monuments.” The historic city of Palmyra was seized by Isis in May after a week-long siege that drove out forces loyal to Assad.