ܫܒܪܐ

From Aramaic שַׁבְרָא (šaḇrā).

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ܫܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ • (šaḇrā) m sg (plural ܫܲܒ݂ܪܹ̈ܐ (šaḇrē), feminine ܫܒ݂ܲܪܬ݂ܵܐ (šḇarṯā))

1. child, toddler, infant (under five years old)

   Coordinate terms: ܝܲܢܩܵܐ (yanqā, “baby”), ܝܲܠܕܵܐ (yaldā, “boy”), ܥܠܲܝܡܵܐ (ˁlaymā, “youth”)

2. (formal) minor

   Antonym: ܓܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ ܫܲܠܡܵܐ (gaḇrā šalmā)

From the root ܫ-ܒ-ܪ (š-b-r) related to being childish.

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ܫܒܪܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܫܒܪܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܫܒܪܬܐ)

1. toddler, child, infant (under five years old)
2. candlewick

• ܫܒܪܘܬܐ

Possibly from Akkadian 𒌑𒈛𒈥𒌅 (šibburratu ).

• ܫܒܗܪܐ
• ܫܘܒܪܐ
• ܫܘܪܐ

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ܫܒܪܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܫܒܪܐ)

1. (botany) harmal, Syrian rue
2. (by extension) wick made from harmal

• “šbr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-12-06
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 358b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 557b, 568a
• 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, pp. 1505b-1506a