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Aramaic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *kalb-.
Pronunciation
Noun
כַּלְבָּא • (transliteration needed) m (plural כַּלְבַיָּא, singular feminine counterpart כלבתא)
- dog
Inflection
References
- “klb”, 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
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Etymology
From Aramaic כַּלְבָּא (kalbā).
Noun
כלבא (kalba) m (feminine counterpart כלפתא (kalәpṯa), plural כלויה (kalwe))
- dog
Derived terms