ܠܩܚܐ

Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac, from the archaic verb ܠܩܚ (ləqaḥ, “to take”), referring to an open area around a city and any settlements within its jurisdiction historically supplying the food sources; compare cognate of Hebrew לֶקַח (lékakh, “lesson, moral”).

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ܠܲܩܚܵܐ • (laqḥā) m sg (plural ܠܲܩܚܹ̈ܐ (laqḥē))

1. suburb

• ܡܵܬ݂ܵܐ (māṯā, “village, town”), ܫܒ݂ܵܒ݂ܘܼܬ݂ܵܐ (šḇāḇūṯā, “neighbourhood”), ܡܵܚܘܿܙܵܐ (māḥōzā, “quarter”), ܡܕ݂ܝܼܢ݇ܬܵܐ (mḏītā, “city”), ܦܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܐ (pnīṯā, “area, region”)

• ܢܲܦܩܝܼܬ݂ܵܐ (napqīṯā)

• ܠܚܩܐ (laḥqā)

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ܠܩܚܐ • (laqḥā) m (plural ܠܩܚܐ (laqḥē))

1. open area around a city and any settlements within its jurisdiction: countryside, suburb, metropolitan area, region
2. (by extension) far reaches, remote area; hiding place
   • Peshitta, Habakkuk 3:4:

     ܘܙܗܪܗ ܐܝܟ ܢܘܗܪܐ ܢܗܘܐ: ܒܩܪܝܬܐ ܕܐܝܕ̈ܘܗܝ ܢܣܝܡ ܥܘܫܢܗ ܒܠܩܚܐ.

     wə-zahrēh ʾāḵ nuhrā nehwē, ba-qərīṯā ḏ-ʾīḏaw nəsīm ʿušnēh ḇə-laqḥā.

     And His brightness was like light, in the creation of His hands was His power in hiding.

• “lqḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2019-05-20
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 174a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 244b
• 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, page 696a