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Classical Syriac
Etymology 1
Unknown; compare Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ), Persian بت (bat) and Old Armenian բադ (bad).
Pronunciation
Noun
ܒܛܐ • (baṭṭāʾ) m (plural ܒܛܐ)
- duck, drake
Inflection
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
ܒܛܐ • (beṭṭāʾ) m (plural ܒܛܐ)
- 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