ܣܦܪܐ

Likely borrowed from Akkadian 𒅆𒅁𒀸 (šiprum, “message, report”). Compare Arabic سِفْر (sifr) and Hebrew סֵפֶר (sḗp̄er).

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ܣܦܪܐ • (sefrā) m (plural ܣܦܪܐ)

1. writings
2. document, scroll
3. book
4. literature
5. letters, characters
6. speech, language

• (letters) ܐܬܘܬܐ
• (book, writing) ܟܬܒܐ, ܨܘܪܬܐ
• (language, tongue) ܠܫܢܐ, ܠܥܙܐ

From the root ܣ-ܦ-ܪ (s-p-r) related to narrating, derived from above. Compare Arabic سَافِر (sāfir) and Hebrew סוֹפֵר (sōp̄ēr).

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ܣܦܪܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܣܦܪܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܣܦܪܬܐ)

1. scribe, writer
2. clerk
3. lawyer, notary
4. master, schoolmaster, teacher, doctor
5. one learned in sacred scriptures

From the root ܣ-ܦ-ܪ (s-p-r) related to shearing. Compare Hebrew סַפָּר (sappār).

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ܣܦܪܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܣܦܪܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܣܦܪܬܐ)

1. shearer, barber

Cognate with ܣܦܬܐ (sep̄ṯā, “lip; shore”). Compare Hebrew סְפָר (səp̄ār).

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ܣܦܪܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܣܦܪܐ)

1. shore, coast
2. riverbank
3. border
4. edge, margin
5. corner

• “spr”, 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, pp. 234b-235a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 387a-b
• 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. 1035a-b