Meaning of "Ba'th" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BA'TH

From Arabic: resurgence.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BA'TH

bɑːθ

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BA'TH

Ba'th is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BA'TH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ba'ath Party

The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party was a political party founded in Syria by Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar and associates of Zaki al-Arsuzi. The party espoused Ba'athism, which is an ideology mixing Arab nationalist, pan-Arabism, Arab socialist and anti-imperialist interests. Ba'athism calls for unification of the Arab world into a single state. Its motto, "Unity, Liberty, Socialism", refers to Arab unity, and freedom from non-Arab control and interference. The party was founded by the merger of the Arab Ba'ath Movement, led by Aflaq and al-Bitar, and the Arab Ba'ath, led by al-Arsuzi, on 7 April 1947 as the Arab Ba'ath Party. The party quickly established branches in other Arab countries, although it would only hold power in Iraq and Syria. The Arab Ba'ath Party merged with the Arab Socialist Party, led by Akram al-Hawrani, in 1952 to form the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. The newly formed party was a relative success, and became the second-largest party in the Syrian parliament in the 1954 election. This, coupled with the increasing strength of the Syrian Communist Party, led to the establishment of the United Arab Republic, a union of Egypt and Syria.

Definition of Ba'th in the English dictionary

The definition of Ba'th in the dictionary is an Arab Socialist party, esp in Iraq and Syria, founded by Michel Aflaq in 1941. It attempts to combine Marxism with pan-Islamic nationalism.

TRANSLATION OF BA'TH

Find out the translation of Ba'th to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Ba'th from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Ba'th» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 阿拉伯复兴社会党
• Translator English - Spanish: Baaz
• English: Ba´th
• Translator English - Hindi: Ba´th
• Translator English - Arabic: البعث
• Translator English - Russian: Ba´th
• Translator English - Portuguese: Ba`ath
• Translator English - Bengali: Ba´th
• Translator English - French: Baas
• Translator English - Malay: Ba´th
• Translator English - German: Baath
• Translator English - Japanese: バアス
• Translator English - Korean: Ba´th
• Translator English - Javanese: Ba´th
• Translator English - Vietnamese: Ba´th
• Translator English - Tamil: Ba´th
• Translator English - Marathi: बाथ
• Translator English - Turkish: Banyo
• Translator English - Italian: Ba´th
• Translator English - Polish: Baas
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Ba´th
• Translator English - Romanian: Baas
• Translator English - Greek: Μπάαθ
• Translator English - Afrikaans: Ba´th
• Translator English - Swedish: bath
• Translator English - Norwegian: Ba´th

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BA'TH»

Discover the use of Ba'th in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Ba'th and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime

It is these documents that form the basis of this extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born scholar and seasoned commentator on the Middle East.

Joseph Sassoon, 2011

Syria Under the Baʻth, 1963-66: The Army Party Symbiosis

This book establishes the chronology of the period, identifies the issues and the acting forces that shaped it, and evaluates the significance of these changes and developments.

Itamar Rabinovič, 1972

The Ba'th and the Creation of Modern Syria

composition of the Syrian Ba'th leadership.) The National Progressive Front Since 1972, the National Progressive Front has been an important organ of the state and appendage of the Ba'th. As its name implies it is a coalition of the left- wing or ...

David Roberts, 2013

Saddam's Word : The Political Discourse in Iraq: The ...

The Ba'th: "Permanent Revolution and the Renewal of Youth" Clause 6 of the Ba' th party's "Permanent Principles" reads: "The Ba'th is a revolutionary party. It believes that its principal aims in [the process of] realizing an Arab national ...

Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Tel Aviv University Ofra Bengio Senior Research Fellow, 1998

The New Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa

33 Three political parties gained mass support for the way in which they addressed these basic questions: the Syrian Communist Party (SCP), the Ba'th, and the Arab Socialist Party. A fourth organization, the Muslim Brothers, in alliance with ...

Stephen J. King, 2009

Who Are Iraq¿s New Leaders? What Do They Want?

The new governments that have come to power already have a record of putting females into power that greatly outstrips the previous Ba'th regime's. In the post- Saddam leadership group, some 13 percent have been women; in the May 2005  ...

Phebe Marr, 2009

Iraq's Dysfunctional Democracy

This organization declares that “we are a nation that does not forget its martyrs” and that “uprooting the Baath is our message to humanity.”13 Whether or not they have previous connections with the Ba'th Party, many politicians are peacefully ...

David Ghanim, 2011

Reaching for Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World

The Ba'th drew a line between “bad” and “good” Shi'is. The Iranians who fought Iraq were depicted as extremists and descendants of the Jew 'Abdallah ibn Saba' , the Ba'th thus evoking an image of Shi'ism that was widespread among the ...

Yitzhak Nakash, 2011

Syria, the United States, and the War on Terror in the ...

At the time, they issued a number of bulletins and pamphlets in the name of the “ Arab Revitalization (Ihya) Movement.” In 1943, the movement of Aflaq and Bitar took the name Harakat al-Ba'th al-Arabi.44 A year later, the two began to refer to  ...

Robert G. Rabil, 2006

From June to October: The Middle East Between 1967 And 1973

of power and for maintaining at least a semblance of continuity of Ba'th Party rule. When Asad finally did seize full power in Syria on 14 November, 1970, he did not act of his own choosing in as much as he responded to a challenge posed by ...

Itamar Rabinovich, Haim Shaked

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BA'TH»

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June 16th, 2015 · 2 min read

... leading to the death of 71 regime forces and allied militiamen including a commander in the al-Ba'th battalions, while no fewer than 48 were ... «Syria Deeply, Jun 15»

The wounds of Baghdad's Frankenstein

Fighting along his side are a number of demoralized followers: there is the disheartened sorcerer, a member of the demised Ba'th Party, whose ... «Open Democracy, May 15»

Then and Now: LCPS Interviews Jadaliyya Co-Editor Ziad Abu-Rish …

... of the Communist Party or the Progressive Socialist Party, before the defection from the latter group to the ranks of the Ba'th Party and others. «Jadaliyya, May 15»

Newroz In Self-Ruled Syrian Kurdistan

In 1985 the Ba'th regime forces attacked the people in a gathering in Afrin and killed many of them. People defended themselves and managed ... «CounterCurrents.org, Apr 15»

Vicious Circles: Fanon, Islamism and Decolonization

... military containment of Israel, since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and the elder was a member of the Ba'th military leadership in the 1967 War. «CounterPunch, Mar 15»

Jewish State / Islamic States / United States

... Ba'th Party factions of Syrian and Iraqi origin, Communists and Islamists and the Western/Israeli conspiracies to undermine all of the above. «CounterPunch, Feb 15»

Latest from Iran

... Lead by Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini, Iran was forced in an 8-year war with its neighbor Iraq, ruled by Saddam Hussein's ba'th regime. «Press TV, Feb 15»

Outsiders Among Their Own: Silencing Moderate Voices in Palestine

As a university student, he joined the Arab Ba'th Party. The Ba'th Party considered Israel an imperialist implantation in the heart of the Arab ... «Sharnoff's Global Views, Dec 14»

The best Middle East political science books of 2014

... Option,” Laurence Louer's “Shiism and Politics in the Middle East,” Joseph Sassoon's “Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian ... «Washington Post, Dec 14»

From revolution to civil conflict: Syria's failed 'Arab Spring'?

The urban middle-class, however, who benefited from the Ba'th party's channelling of national income resources, did not join the protests until ... «Middle East Monitor, Dec 14»