ܥܢܒܬܐ

Akin to Hebrew עֵנָב‎ (ʿēnāḇ, “grape”), Hebrew עֲנָבָה‎‎ (ʿănāḇā), Jewish Aramaic עֲנָבָא‎ (ʿănnāḇā, “stalk of grapes”), עִנְּבָא‎ (ʿinneḇā, “cluster of grapes”), עִנְבְּתָא‎ (ʿinbəṯā, “berry”), Ugaritic 𐎙𐎐𐎁 (ġnb, “grape(s)”), Arabic عِنَب‎ (ʿinab), Sabaean 𐩲𐩬𐩨‎ (“vineyard”), and probably Akkadian 𒄧 (GURUN /enbu/, “fruit”) with its many derivatives.

• IPA^(key): [ʕɛnb(ə)θɑ(ʔ)]

ܥܢܒܬܐ • (ʿinbəṯā) f (plural ܥܢܒܐ‎)

1. grape
2. berry
3. morel
4. cluster, bunch
5. (pathology) kind of haemorrhoid/hemorrhoid
6. (pathology) tubercle in the eye
7. (anatomy) oval of the eye

• Although feminine in the singular, this word behaves as a common noun in the plural.

• “ˁnbh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français : Syriac–English Dictionary, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 257b
• Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 78 seqq.
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 419b
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• Kogan, Leonid (2011), “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 204