Every Semitic word

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• VALInounArabic3 findersAlternative form of wali.
• VEZIRnounArabic1 finderDated form of vizier.
• VILAYETnounArabic12 findersA province, particularly the first-level administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire.
• VIZIERnounArabic183 findersA high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.
• WADInounArabic161 findersA valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
• WALInounArabic6 findersA provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.
• WAQFnounArabic23 findersAn endowment of land given for religious or charitable purposes.
• WAZIRnounArabic6 findersVizier.
• WHETverbHebrew136 findersTo sharpen (something, such as a knife or sword) by rubbing on an object, especially a whetstone; to hone.
• WUDUnounArabic22 findersA ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer.
• WUDUSnounArabic4 findersA ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer.
• XEBECnounArabic50 findersA small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern.
• YALEnounHebrew27 findersA mythical beast in European mythology and heraldry, usually portrayed as an antelope- or goatlike four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.
• YESHIVAnounHebrew171 findersAn academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
• YLEMnounHebrew53 findersIn the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma that made up the matter in the cosmos following the initial baryogenesis at an early stage of its expansion and cooling, from which
• YLEMSnounHebrew20 findersIn the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma that made up the matter in the cosmos following the initial baryogenesis at an early stage of its expansion and cooling, from which
• YODHnounHebrew16 findersThe tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• ZAKATnounAramaic6 findersAlmsgiving, usually in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property which is then used for charitable purposes; the third of the five pillars of Islam.
• ZAMOUSEnounArabic3 findersA West African buffalo, Syncerus caffer brachyceros, with short horns and large ears.
• ZAPTIEHnounArabic4 findersA Turkish policeman.
• ZAYINnounHebrew5 findersThe seventh letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• ZENITHnounArabic129 findersThe point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.
• ZERIBAnounArabic3 findersA fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
• ZOUAVEnounArabic16 findersa French soldier in the Union army of the Unites States civil war, or a Union soldier in a French soldier's uniform.

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