Elamite

[ ee-luh-mahyt ]

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of ancient Elam.
2. Also a language of unknown affinities, spoken by the Elamites as late as the 1st century b.c., written c3500–c2500 b.c. in a linear script and thereafter in a cuneiform script.

adjective

1. of or relating to Elam, its people, or their language.

Elamite

/ ˈiːləˌmaɪt /

noun

1. an inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Elam
2. Also calledElamiticSusian the extinct language of this people, of no known relationship, recorded in cuneiform inscriptions dating from the 25th to the 4th centuries bc

adjective

1. of or relating to Elam, its people, or their language

Word History and Origins

Origin of Elamite¹

Elam + -ite ¹

Example Sentences

A carving found at Kouyunjik shows the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal enjoying a picnic in his garden while the severed head of his enemy, the Elamite king Teumman, swings from the branches of the trees.

From BBC

But if you look carefully up to the left, you’ll see a severed head — of the vanquished Elamite king — hanging in a tree.

From New York Times

While he was keeping the festival of the goddess Istar at Arbela, a message was brought to him from the Elamite monarch that he was on his march to destroy Assyria and its gods.

From Project Gutenberg

Various things are then narrated, the most important of them being the episode of the Elamite Ḫumbaba, the same name, though not the same person, as the Kombabos of the Greeks.

From Project Gutenberg

Eight days after the fall of Sippar, the army of the Elamite king lay encamped before Babylon.

From Project Gutenberg