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Classical Syriac
Etymology
Compare Akkadian 𒊩𒀲 (atānu /eme3/), Arabic أَتَان (ʔatān), Hebrew אָתוֹן (ʾāṯôn).
Pronunciation
Noun
ܐܬܢܐ • (ʾăṯānā) f (plural ܐܬܢܐ (ʾăṯānē), singular masculine counterpart ܚܡܪܐ (ḥəmārā))
- donkey, she-ass, jenny
- Peshitta, John 12:15:
ܠܐ ܬܕܚܠܝܢ ܒܪܬ ܨܗܝܘܢ. ܗܐ ܡܠܟܟܝ ܐܬܐ ܠܟܝ. ܘܪܟܝܒ ܥܠ ܥܝܠܐ ܒܪ ܐܬܢܐ.- lā ṯeḏḥəlīn, baṯ ṣehyōn: hā malkēḵ ʾāṯē lēḵ, wa-rəḵīḇ ʿal ʿīlā bar ʾăṯānā.
- Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
Usage notes
While the word is normally considered feminine, it may occasionally be masculine when specifically referring to a male.
Inflection
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References
- “ˀtn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-08-25
- Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 22b
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 33a
- Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, page 112b