mandean

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mandean - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Mandean
      adj 1: of or relating to the Mandaean people or their language
             or culture [syn: Mandaean, Mandean]
      n 1: a member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan
           and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist
           was the Messiah [syn: Mandaean, Mandean]
      2: the form of Aramaic used by the Mandeans [syn: Mandaean,
         Mandean]