Baath
See also: Bååth
English
Alternative forms
- Ba'th, Baʻth (stricter transliterations)
- Ba'ath, Bath (nonstandard, proscribed)
Etymology
From Arabic بَعْث (baʿṯ, “resurrection”), part of the party's official name, حِزْب البَعْث العَرَبِيّ الاِشْتِرَاكِيّ (ḥizb al-baʿṯ al-ʿarabiyy 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 (baʿlabakk), the Kaaba for الكَعْبَة (al-kaʿba), Saad (name) for سَعْد (saʿd), or zaatar for زَعْتَر (zaʿtar).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑːθ/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɑːθ
- Homophone: bath (Received Pronunciation)
Proper noun
the Baath
- The Arab Socialist Baath Party, a secular Arab socialist political party present in several countries in the Middle East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.
- 1959, Swiss Review of World Affairs, page 23:
- Today it is they that proclaim the slogan of "federation"—which is opposed to the Baath's postulates.
- 1978, Ware, Lewis B., A Handbook of the Arab-Israeli Crisis, page 96:
- Nasser had a country without a party, but the Baath was still a party without a country.
- 1980, Dawisha, Adeed I., Syria and the Lebanese crisis, page 46:
- For the Party to succeed in achieving these aims, Aflaq insisted that the Baath had to be nationalist, populist, socialist and revolutionary.
- 1995, Viorst, Milton, Sandcastles, page 23:
- The Baath was small but well organized and bold, and could not be intimidated.
- 2012, Habeeb, William Mark, The Middle East in Turmoil, page 185:
- The Baath is an avowedly secular party that has pursued socialist economic policies and at one time was aligned with the "godless" Soviet Union.
- 2016, Mansour, Imad, Statecraft in the Middle East, page 125:
- The 1973 War was an opportunity for decision makers to demonstrate that their work under the Baath was substantively different than their predecessors, [...]
- 2018, Abouzeid, Rania, No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria:
- The Baath was the party of the downtrodden, stacked with minorities and the rural poor of all sects, including Sunni.
- 2021, Solomon, Christopher, In Search of Greater Syria, page 5:
- 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.
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Derived terms
- Baathism
- Baathist
- de-Baathification
Related terms
- Baathi
Translations
the Arab Socialist Baath Party
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References
- “Baath” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
Anagrams
- abaht