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Translingual
Letter
ܫ
- Syriac letter shin
Classical Syriac
Etymology
Ultimately from Phoenician 𐤔 (š, “shin”). Compare Arabic ش (š) and Hebrew ש (š).
Pronunciation
Letter
ܫ • (transliteration needed)
- shin, twenty-first letter of the Syriac alphabet
Coordinate terms
Descendants
- ⇒ Old Turkic: 𐱀 (š), 𐱁 (š), 𐱂 (š)
See also
Numeral
ܫ • (transliteration needed)
- number three hundred (300)
References
- “š”, 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. 355a
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 553a
- 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. 1496a