ܒܥܝܪܐ

Inherited from Aramaic בְּעִירָא (bəʿīrā); cognate to Arabic بَعِير (baʕīr) and Hebrew בְּעִיר (b'ír), Akkadian 𒀫 (būrum, “calf”), Ugaritic 𐎛𐎁𐎗 (ỉbr, “bull”), Ge'ez ብዕር (bəʿər, “ox, horned cattle”), Amharic በሬ (bäre), Old South Arabian 𐩨𐩲𐩧 (bʿr, “cattle”).

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ܒܥܝܼܪܵܐ • (bˁīrā) m (plural ܒܥܝܼܪܹ̈ܐ (bˁīrē))

1. domesticated animal, beast of burden

• ܚܲܝܘܬ݂ܵܐ (ḥaywṯā, “any animal, especially wild animal”)
• ܩܸܢܝܵܢܵܐ (qinyānā, “livestock”)

Compare Arabic بَعِير (baʕīr) and Hebrew בְּעִיר (bəʿīr).

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ܒܥܝܪܐ • (bˁīrā) f (plural ܒܥܝܪܐ)

1. sheep, cattle
2. (by extension) domesticated animals, beasts of burden

While feminine in the singular, this word may be either feminine or masculine in the plural.

• ܚܝܘܬܐ

• “bˁyr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 35a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 50b
• 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, →ISBN, page 170b