ܓܘܢܐ

Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac, from Proto-Iranian *gawnah; compare Middle Persian gwn' (gōn, “colour”), gwnk' (gōnag, “sort, kind”), Persian ـگون (-gun, “colour”), گونه (guna, “sort, kind”) and Old Armenian գոյն (goyn).

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ܓܲܘܢܵܐ • (gawnā) m sg (plural ܓܲܘܢܹ̈ܐ (gawnē))

1. color, hue

   Synonym: ܨܘܼܒ݂ܥܵܐ (ṣuḇˁā)

2. (archaic) sort, kind, type, genre, species

   Synonyms: ܐܵܕ݂ܫܵܐ (āḏšā), ܙܢܵܐ (znā)

• ܡܓܲܘܸܢ (mgawwin, “to color, colorize, paint”)
• ܓܲܘܢܵܢܵܐ (gawnānā, “colorful”)
• ܓܲܘܢܵܐ ܡܵܪܵܢܵܝܵܐ (gawnā mārānāyā, “primary color”)
• ܓܲܘܢܵܐ ܦܲܩܘܼܚܵܐ (gawnā paqūḥā, “light color”)
• ܓܲܘܢܵܐ ܟܲܡܘܼܕ݂ܵܐ (gawnā kamūḏā, “dark color”)

From Old Iranian *gawnah; compare Middle Persian gwn' (gōn, “colour”), gwnk' (gōnag, “sort, kind”), Persian ـگون (-gun, “colour”), گونه (guna, “sort, kind”), Old Armenian գոյն (goyn).

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ܓܘܢܐ • (gawnā) m (plural ܓܘܢܐ (gawnē) or ܓܘܢܢܐ (gawnānē) or ܓܘܢܘܬܐ (gawnawwāṯā))

1. colour/color, hue

   Synonyms: ܨܒܥܐ, ܣܡܐ

2. appearance

   Synonym: ܥܝܢܐ

3. sort, kind, type, species
4. remedy, medicine

   Synonyms: ܣܡܐ, ܥܩܪܐ

Compare Arabic جُونَة (jūna).

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ܓܘܢܐ • (gūnā) m (plural ܓܘܢܘܬܐ (gūnawwāṯā))

1. drinking vessel; cup, goblet, glass

   Synonym: ܟܣܐ

2. wooden kneading trough
3. bronze pot

• “gwn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-05-16
• “gwn²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-05-16
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 45a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 64b-65a
• 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, pages 216b-217a