ܦܘܪܣܐ

Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac, Ancient Greek πόρος (póros). The senses “opportunity” and “chance” are a phono-semantic matching of Arabic فُرْصَة (furṣa)

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ܦܘܼܪܣܵܐ • (pursā) m (plural ܦܘܼܪ̈ܣܹܐ (pursē))

1. way, means, resource
2. method, manner, mode, style, technique
3. opportunity, chance; possibility, option

   Synonyms: ܐܲܦܬ݂ܵܐ (apṯā), ܦܸܠܥܵܐ (pilˁā)

• (most senses): ܐܘܼܪܚܵܐ (urḥā), ܫܒ݂ܝܼܠܵܐ (šḇīlā), ܕܘܼܒܵܪܵܐ (dubbārā), ܡܸܨܥܵܝܘܼܬ݂ܵܐ (miṣˁāyūṯā)

• ܡܸܢ ܟܠ ܦܪܘܿܣ (min kul prōs)

Verbal noun of ܡܦܲܪܸܣ (mparris, “to publish; to post”).

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ܦܘܼܪܵܣܵܐ • (purrāsā) m (plural ܦܘܼܪ̈ܵܣܹܐ (pūrāsē))

1. publication, issue, pamphlet, charter
2. (Internet) post (on facebook, etc)

From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros).

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ܦܘܪܣܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܘܪܣܐ)

1. way, manner, means, resource
2. possibility
3. sustenance, provisions
4. work, doing, deed
5. contrivance, stratagem, device
6. ruse, guile, trick
7. pretext, pretence/pretense
8. motive, reason, cause
9. way out
10. bound, limit

From the root ܦ ܪ ܣ related to devising, derived from above.

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ܦܘܪܣܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܘܪܣܐ)

1. cunning, craftiness

• “prws”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “pwrs”, 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, page 289b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 458b
• 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, →ISBN, page 1171a