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Noun: Aramaism
  1. A characteristic feature of Aramaic occurring in another language.
    "Even Joachim Jeremias, one of the prime champions of this criterion, recognized that the mere presence of an Aramaism could not prove the authenticity of an independent unit of translation.";
    - Aramaicism

Type of: loan, loanword