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Baath en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /bɑːθ/

Etymology

From Arabic بَعْث (baʕṯ, “resurrection”), part of the party's official name, حِزْب البَعْث العَرَبِيّ الاِشْتِرَاكِيّ (ḥizb al-baʕṯ al-ʕarabiyy al-ištirākiyy, literally “the party of the Arab socialist resurrection”). The sequence ــَعْـ (aʿ) is often rendered as ⟨aa⟩ in English; compare Baalbek for بَعْلَبَكّ (baʕlabakk), the Kaaba for الكَعْبَة (al-kaʕba), Saad (name) for سَعْد (saʕd), or zaatar for زَعْتَر (zaʕtar).

Meanings

1. The Arab Socialist Baath Party, a secular Arab socialist political party present in several countries in the Middle East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.
   • For the Party to succeed in achieving these aims, Aflaq insisted that the Baath had to be nationalist, populist, socialist and revolutionary. 1980, Adeed I. Dawisha, Syria and the Lebanese crisis, page 46:
   • The Baath was the party of the downtrodden, stacked with minorities and the rural poor of all sects, including Sunni. 2018, Rania Abouzeid, No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria:
   • It was on this platform that the Baath would bring glory, honor, and enlightenment back to the Arab World in the wake of European colonialism. 2021, Christopher Solomon, In Search of Greater Syria, page 5:
   • The Baath was small but well organized and bold, and could not be intimidated. 1995, Milton Viorst, Sandcastles, page 23:
   • Today it is they that proclaim the slogan of "federation"—which is opposed to the Baath's postulates. 1959, Swiss Review of World Affairs, page 23:
   • The 1973 War was an opportunity for decision makers to demonstrate that their work under the Baath was substantively different than their predecessors, [...] 2016, Imad Mansour, Statecraft in the Middle East, page 125:
   • Nasser had a country without a party, but the Baath was still a party without a country. 1978, Lewis B. Ware, A Handbook of the Arab-Israeli Crisis, page 96:
   • The Baath is an avowedly secular party that has pursued socialist economic policies and at one time was aligned with the "godless" Soviet Union. 2012, William Mark Habeeb, The Middle East in Turmoil, page 185:

Forms

Deriveds

Baathism · Baathist · de-Baathification

Relateds

Baathi

Translations (18)

tr Baas Partisi (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · ar الْبَعْث (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · hi बास (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · ro Baas (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · uz Baʼs partiyasi (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · ar ḥizb al-baʕṯ al-ʕarabiyy al-ištirākiyy (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · ur بعث (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · tg Ҳизби Баъс (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · ro Partidul Baas (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · bn হেজবে বাছ (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · uz Baʼs (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · kmr Partiya Be's (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · ar حِزْب البَعْث (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · tr Baas (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · fa بعث (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · tg Баъс (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · fa حزب بعث (the Arab Socialist Baath Party) · bn আরবী সমাজতান্ত্রিক হেজবে বাছ (the Arab Socialist Baath Party)