ܡܢ
Classical Syriac
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mɛn]
Preposition
ܡܢ • (men)
- (of place) from, out of; at, on
- (of origin) from, of
- (of material) from, made of
- (of time) from, while, during, at, after
- (agentively) by, by means of, on account of, using
- (partitively) of, out of, some of
- (distributively) by, through, in
- (comparatively) than
- (idiomatically) among, on the side of, of the party; in the name of, on the authority of, according to
- instead of, without
Inflection
Takes type-I suffixes.
declension of ܡܢ
1st c. sg. (me) | ܡܢܝ |
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2nd m. sg. (you) | ܡܢܟ |
2nd f. sg. (you) | ܡܢܟܝ |
3rd m. sg. (him) | ܡܢܗ |
3rd f. sg. (her) | ܡܢܗ |
1st c. pl. (us) | ܡܢܢ |
2nd m. pl. (you) | ܡܢܟܘܢ |
2nd f. pl. (you) | ܡܢܟܝܢ |
3rd m. pl. (them) | ܡܢܗܘܢ |
3rd f. pl. (them) | ܡܢܗܝܢ |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [man]
Alternative forms
- ܡܐ (mā)
- ܡܢܐ (mānā)
- ܡܘܢ (mōn)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mɑn]
Etymology 4
From Ancient Greek μέν (mén).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [man]
Coordinate terms
- ܕܝܢ (dên)
References
- “mn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2018-01-24
- Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français : Syriac–English Dictionary : قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, pp. 186b-187a
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 280a-281b
- 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. 778b-779a
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