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Classical Syriac
Etymology
Compare Arabic رَفْش (rafš). The sense of “winnowing fan, winnowing basket” is a calque from Akkadian.
Pronunciation
Noun
ܪܦܫܐ • (rap̄šāʾ) m (plural ܪܦܫܐ)
- winnowing fan, winnowing basket
- shovel, spade
- (anatomy) humerus, scapula, shoulder blade; shoulder
Usage notes
This word is masculine, despite the tendency in Semitic languages for body parts that come in pairs to be feminine.
Inflection
Synonyms
- (shoulder): ܟܬܦܐ (kaṯpāʾ)
References
- “rpš”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-06-08
- Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 352a
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 548a
- 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. 1486a