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Classical Syriac
Etymology
From the root ܚ-ܘ-ܛ (ḥ-w-ṭ) related to sewing; compare Arabic مِخْيَط (miḵyaṭ), Hebrew מַחַט (máḥaṭ).
Pronunciation
Noun
ܡܚܛܐ • (mḥaṭṭā) f (plural ܡܚܛܐ)
- (sewing) needle
- small spear
- candlewick
Inflection
Descendants
- → Old Armenian: մախաթ (maxatʻ)
References
- “mḥṭ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-11-07
- Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 102a
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 264a
- 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. 738a