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Classical Syriac
Etymology
Compare Arabic رُمْح (rumḥ), Hebrew רֹמַח (rṓmaḥ).
Pronunciation
Noun
ܪܘܡܚܐ • (rumḥā) f (plural ܪܘܡܚܐ (rumḥē))
- spear, lance
- Peshitta, Judges 5:8:
ܢܓܒܐ ܐܠܗܐ ܚܕܬܐ: ܘܗܝܕܝܢ ܠܚܡܐ ܕܣܥܪ̈ܐ: ܘܣܝܦܐ ܘܪܘܡܚܐ ܠܐ ܢܬܚܙܐ ܒܝܢܬ ܐܪܒܥܝܢ ܐܠܦ̈ܐ ܕܝܣܪܝܠ.- neḡbē ʾălāhā ḥəḏattā; wə-hāydên laḥmā ḏa-səʿārē: wə-saypā wə-rumḥā lā neṯḥəzē baynāṯ ʾarbəʿīn ʾăləp̄ē ḏə-īsrāyēl.
- They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Inflection
Irregular absolute and construct singular with a varying Waw.
References
- “rwmḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2012-06-02
- Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 342a
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 535a
- 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, page 1450b