ܒܛܐ

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Classical Syriac

Etymology 1

Unknown; compare Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ), Persian بت (bat) and Old Armenian բադ (bad).

Pronunciation

Noun

ܒܛܐ (baṭṭāʾm (plural ܒܛܐ)

  1. duck, drake
Inflection

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

ܒܛܐ (beṭṭāʾm (plural ܒܛܐ)

  1. spark from red-hot coal or iron
Inflection

References

  • bṭ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-05-16
  • Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 125
  • Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 28a
  • Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, pages 21–22
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 41a-b
  • 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, p. 136b