ܪܡܫܐ

From Aramaic רַמְשָׁא (ramšā), from Proto-Semitic *mušy-. Compare Arabic مَسَاء (masāʔ) and Hebrew אֶמֶשׁ (émesh).

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ܪܲܡܫܵܐ • (ramšā) m (plural ܪܲܡܫܵܘܵܬܹܐ (ramšāwātē))

1. evening (the period of time at the end of the day, usually from sunset to bedtime)
2. evening prayer
3. (figuratively) old age, life

   Synonyms: ܩܲܫܝܼܫܘܼܬܵܐ (qašīšūtā), ܣܲܝܒܘܼܬܵܐ (saybūtā)

• (times of day) ܥܸܕܵܢܹ̈ܐ ܕܝܵܘܡܵܐ (ˁiddānē d-yāwmā); ܐܝܼܡܵܡܵܐ (īmāmā, “daytime”), ܢܘܼܓ݂ܗܵܐ (nuḡhā, “dawn”), ܕܸܢܚܵܐ (dinḥā, “sunrise”), ܨܲܦܪܵܐ (ṣaprā, “morning”), ܛܲܗܪܵܐ (ṭahrā, “noon, afternoon”), ܥܪܵܒ݂ܵܐ (ˁrāḇā, “sunset”), ܢܘܼܨܦܵܐ (nuṣpā, “dusk”), ܪܲܡܫܵܐ (ramšā, “evening”), ܦܲܠܓܵܐ ܕܠܲܝܠܹܐ (palgā d-laylē, “midnight”), ܠܲܝܠܹܐ (laylē, “nighttime”) ^{(Category: aii:Times of day)}

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ܪܡܫܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܪܡܫܘܬܐ or ܪܡܫܐ)

1. evening
2. (figuratively) old age, life

• “rmš”, 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. 348b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 544a
• 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. 1475a-b