ܢܚܠܐ

From Aramaic נַחְלָא (naḥlā); cognate to Hebrew נַחַל (nákhal).

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ܢܲܚܠܵܐ • (naḥlā) m sg (plural ܢܲܚܠܹ̈ܐ (naḥlē))

1. torrent
2. river, stream, wadi, gully
3. gorge, valley

From ܢܲܚܠܵܐ ܕܡܲܠܟܹ̈ܐ (literally “Gorge of the Kings”).

• ܢܲܗܠܵܐ (nahlā), ܢܵܠܵܐ (nālā)

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  Homophone: ܢܵܠܵܐ (nālā, “nightmare, incubous, devil”)

ܢܵܚ݇ܠܵܐ • (nālā) f

1. Nahla (Assyrian-majority geographic region lying in a valley separated by a mountain range and bound by the Great Zab River)

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ܢܵܚܠܵܐ • (nāḥlā) m sg (plural ܢܵܚܠܹ̈ܐ (nāḥlē), feminine ܢܵܚܸܠܬܵܐ (nāḥiltā))

1. sifter

Compare Hebrew נַחַל (náḥal).

• IPA^(key): (singular)
• IPA^(key): (plural)

ܢܚܠܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܢܚܠܐ)

1. torrent
2. river, stream, wadi, gully
3. gorge, valley

From the root ܢ-ܚ-ܠ (n-ḥ-l) related to sifting.

• IPA^(key): (singular)
• IPA^(key): (plural)

ܢܚܠܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܢܚܠܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܢܚܠܬܐ)

1. sifter

From the root ܢ-ܚ-ܠ (n-ḥ-l) related to sifting.

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ܢܚܠܐ • (transliteration needed) m(uncountable)

1. sifting
2. superstitious choosing of times

• “nḥl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 201a, b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 335b
• 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, pp. 907b-908a