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Classical Syriac
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Armenian կատապան (katapan), from Byzantine Greek κατεπάνω (katepánō, “title of Byzantine governors”), from Vulgar Latin *catapanus, from Late Latin capitaneus. Compare English catapan. See also the Catepanate of Italy.
Pronunciation
Noun
ܩܛܐܒܢ • (qaṭṭā(ʾ)bān)
- governor; especially an Armenian governor of Melitene (modern Malatya)
References
- “qṭˀbn”, 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. 316b
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 500a
- 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. 1347b