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Mandean meaning in English

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Mandean

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Noun

1. mandaean, mandean

a member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist was the Messiah

2. mandaean, mandean

the form of Aramaic used by the Mandeans

Adjective

3. mandaean, mandean

of or relating to the Mandaean people or their language or culture

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Mandean

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noun
1. 
a member of an ancient Gnostic sect still extant in southern Iraq
2. 
the Eastern Aramaic dialect used in the writings of the Mandeans: it was spoken along the Euphrates from the 7th to the 9th cent. a.d.
adjective
3. 
of the Mandeans, their doctrines, etc.
4. 
of Mandean

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Mandean

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n.
Variant of Mandaean.

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