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Classical Syriac
Etymology
Possibly from Middle Persian (SLKʾ /šalgam/), ultimately from Ancient Greek σικελικόν (sikelikón, literally “the Sicilian one”). Doublet of ܣܠܩܐ (silqā, selqā); compare Persian شلغم (šalğam), Old Armenian շաղգամ (šałgam), Arabic شَلْجَم (šaljam), and Arabic سِلْق (silq).
Pronunciation
Noun
ܫܠܓܡܐ • (šalgəmā) m (plural ܫܠܓܡܐ (šalgəmē))
- turnip
Inflection
References
- “šlgm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 264
- Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 346–352
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 241–242 Nr. 177
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 578a
- 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, page 1560b