ܚܪܫܬܐ

Modified from ܚܪܫܐ (ḥaršā, ḥeršā, “magic”), from the root ܚ-ܪ-ܫ (ḥ-r-š) related to magic. Compare Arabic سَاحِرَة (sāḥira).

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ܚܪܫܬܐ • (transliteration needed) f (plural ܚܪܫܬܐ, singular masculine counterpart ܚܪܫܐ)

1. magician, sorceress, witch, enchantress

From the root ܚ-ܪ-ܫ (ḥ-r-š) related to being mute or hoarse.

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ܚܪܫܬܐ • (transliteration needed) f (plural ܚܪܫܬܐ, singular masculine counterpart ܚܪܫܐ)

1. deaf-mute, mute

• “ḥršh”, 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, pages 117b-118a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 159b
• 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 496a-b