ܦܠܓܐ

From Aramaic פַּלְגָּא (palgā); compare Arabic فَلْج (falj) and Hebrew פֶּלֶג (péleg).

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ܦܲܠܓܵܐ • (palgā) m sg (plural ܦܲܠܓܹ̈ܐ (palgē) or ܦܲܠܓܵܓܹ̈ܐ (palgāgē))

1. (fractional number) half (½)
2. (anatomy) middle of body; waist, loins, lower belly
3. midst, middle, center/centre
4. part, portion
5. sect, school of thought

• ܬܘܼܠܬ݂ܵܐ (tulṯā, “a third”), ܪܘܼܒ݂ܥܵܐ (ruḇˁā, “a fourth, a quarter”), ܚܘܼܡܫܵܐ (ḥumšā, “a fifth”), ܫܘܼܬܬ݂ܵܐ (šutṯā, “a sixth”), ܫܘܼܒ݂ܥܵܐ (šuḇˁā, “a seventh”), ܬܘܼܡܢܵܐ (tumnā, “an eighth”), ܬܘܼܫܥܵܐ (tušˁā, “a ninth”), ܥܘܼܣܪܵܐ (ˁusrā, “a tenth”)

Verbal noun of ܦܵܠܹܓ݂ (pālēḡ, “to be/become divided”).

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ܦܠܵܓ݂ܵܐ • (plāḡā) m (plural ܦ̈ܠܵܓ݂ܹܐ (plāḡē))

1. division, dividing, parting

From Akkadian 𒁆 (balaggu, balangu ).

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ܦܠܲܓܵܐ • (plaggā) m (plural ܦܠܲܓܹ̈ܐ (plaggē))

1. (music) drum, tambourine

From the root ܦ-ܠ-ܓ (p-l-ɡ) related to dividing. Compare Arabic فَلْج (falj) and Hebrew פֶּלֶג (péleḡ).

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ܦܠܓܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܠܓܐ)

1. (fractional number) half (½)
2. midst, middle, center/centre
3. (anatomy) middle of body; waist, loins, lower belly
4. part, portion
5. sect, school of thought

From the root ܦ-ܠ-ܓ (p-l-ɡ) related to dividing. Compare Hebrew פִּלּוּג (pillûḡ).

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ܦܠܓܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܠܓܐ)

1. division, dividing, parting

From Akkadian 𒁆 (balaggu, balangu ).

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ܦܠܓܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܠܓܐ)

1. (music) drum, tambourine

From Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx).

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ܦܠܓܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܠܓܐ)

1. (military) phalanx, troop, battalion
2. escort
3. shah's retinue

Compare Arabic فَالِج (fālij).

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ܦܠܓܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܠܓܐ)

1. (medicine) apoplexy
2. (medicine) hemiplegia
3. Bactrian camel

• “plg”, 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. 276a-b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 446b-447a
• 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. 1194a-b