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Classical Syriac
Etymology
From the root ܥ-ܡ-ܕ (ʿ-m-d) related to baptizing; compare Arabic مَعْمُودِيَّة (maʕmūdiyya).
Pronunciation
Noun
ܡܥܡܘܕܝܬܐ • (maʿmōdīṯā) f (plural ܡܥܡܘܕܝܬܐ)
- washing
- pond, pool, basin, piscina
- (Christianity) baptism
- shortened form of ܒܝܬ ܡܥܡܘܕܝܬܐ (bêṯ maʿmōḏīṯā)
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References
- “mˁmwdy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-05-31
- Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 255b
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 289b
- 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. 802a-b