سياع

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Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic שׁיָעָא / ܫܝܳܥܴܐ (šəyāʿā, clay).

Pronunciation

Noun

سَيَاع or سِيَاع (sayāʕ or siyāʕm

  1. mud, clay, limewash
    • a. 576, by الْمُسَيَّبُ بْنُ عَلَس (al-musayyabu bnu ʕalas)
      صَوْبُ غَادِيَةٍ أَدَرَّتْهُ الصَّبَا / بِبَزِيلِ أَزْهَرَ مُدْمَجٍ بِسَيَاعِ
      ṣawbu ḡādiyatin ʔadarrat-hu ṣ-ṣabā / bi-bazīli ʔazhara mudmajin bi-sayāʕi
      The direction of the morning, the east wind flowed over, through a sparkling channel bound with lime.
    Synonym: طِين (ṭīn)

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References

  • šy(”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 7
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سياع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 383
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سياع”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1176
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سياع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1485
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 1138a