ܫܘܪܝܐ

Verbal noun of ܡܫܲܪܹܐ (mšarrē, “to begin”).

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ܫܘܼܪܵܝܵܐ • (šurrāyā) m (plural ܫܘܼܪ̈ܵܝܹܐ (šūrāyē))

1. beginning, origin
2. opening, introduction, preface
3. (Christianity) exordium, kind of psalm

From the root ܫ-ܪ-ܐ (š-r-ʾ). The sense of "subject" is a calque of Arabic مُبْتَدَأ (mubtadaʔ).

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ܫܘܪܝܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܫܘܪܝܐ)

1. beginning, origin
2. opening, introduction, preface
3. (Christianity) exordium, kind of psalm
4. (grammar) subject

• (antonym(s) of “beginning”): ܫܘܠܡܐ

From ܫܘܪܐ (Šūrāʾ, “Assyria”), ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”) + the masculine gentilic suffix ܝܐ- (-āyāʾ).

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ܫܘܪܝܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܫܘܪܝܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܫܘܪܝܬܐ)

1. Assyrian

ܫܘܪܝܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܫܘܪܝܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܫܘܪܝܬܐ)

1. Assyrian

• ܐܬܘܪܝܐ

• “šwry”, 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, pp. 382b, 419b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 568b
• 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. 1536a