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Aramaic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ʾabn-.
Noun
אַבְנָא • (ʾaḇnā) m or f (plural אַבְנַיָּא)
- rock, stone (material)
Tanach, Daniel 5:4, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:אִשְׁתִּיו חַמְרָא וְשַׁבַּחוּ לֵאלָהֵי דַּהֲבָא וְכַסְפָּא נְחָשָׁא פַרְזְלָא אָעָא וְאַבְנָא׃- ʾištīw ḥamrā wəšabbáḥū lēlāhē dahăḇā wəḵaspā nəḥāšā p̄arzəlā ʾāʿā wəʾaḇnā.
- They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
- Babylonian Talmud, Tamid 26b:
אמר אביי דמתקני ומייתי מעיקרא אבני זוטרתא ואבני רברבתא- ʾămar ʾabbayyē d?m?t?q?nē ūm?ṯē mēʿiqqārā ʾaḇnē zūṭərāṯā wəʾaḇnē raḇrəḇāṯā
- Abaye said “to prepare and bring from the beginning small stones and large stones,”
References
- “ˀbn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press