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Classical Syriac
Etymology
Compare the Hebrew גֶּזַע (gézaʿ, “trunk”) and the Arabic جِذْع (jiḏʕ, “trunk”). The sense of "grammatical stem" is a calque of Arabic أَصْل (ʔaṣl).
Pronunciation
Noun
ܓܘܙܥܐ • (gūzʿā) f (plural ܓܘܙܥܐ)
- trunk, stump
- rod, staff, stick
- Synonym: ܫܒܛܐ
- Peshitta, Jeremiah 48:17:
ܐܬܕܠܚܿܘܼ ܘܙܥܼܘ ܟܘܠ ܕܚܕܪ̈ܘܗܝ ܘܟܠ ܕܝܕܥܿܝܢ ܫܡܗ ܐܡܼܪܘ܂ ܐܝܟܢܐܼ ܐܬܬܒܪ ܚܘܛܪܐ ܥܫܝܢܐ ܘܓܘܙܥܐ ܕܬܫܒܘܚܬܐ܂- ʾettəḏallaḥ wə-zāʿw kōl da-ḥəḏāraw wə-ḵōl də-yāḏʿīn šəmēh ʾĕmar: ʾaykannā ʾettəḇar ḥūṭrā ʿaššīnā wə-ḡūzʿā ḏə-ṯešbōḥtā.
- Bemoan and be frightened, all who are around him; and all who know his name, say "how the mighty sceptre and staff of splendour has been broken!".
- (grammar) stem, root, lemma
Usage notes
This word is rarely masculine.
Inflection
Irregular absolute and construct singular with a varying Waw.
Derived terms
References
- “gwzˁ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2015-09-19
- Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 44b
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 63b
- 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. 213a