ܫܪܒܐ

Classical Syriac

FWOTD – 4 January 2015

Etymology 1

From the root ܫ-ܪ-ܒ (š-r-b) related to dryness; compare Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb), Hebrew שָׁרָב (šārāḇ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃarbɑ(ʔ)], [ʃarrɑvɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
  • IPA(key): [ʃarbe(ʔ)], [ʃarrɑve(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܫܪܒܐ (šarbāʾ, šarrāḇāʾ) m (plural ܫܪܒܐ)

  1. hot wind, simoom
Inflection

Etymology 2

From the root ܫ-ܪ-ܒ (š-r-b) related to dryness.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃ(ə)rɑvɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
  • IPA(key): [ʃ(ə)rɑve(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܫܪܒܐ (šərāḇāʾ) m (plural ܫܪܒܐ)

  1. drought
Inflection

Etymology 3

From the root ܫ-ܪ-ܒ (š-r-b) related to propagating.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃarbɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
  • IPA(key): [ʃarbe(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܫܪܒܐ (šarbāʾ) m (plural ܫܪܒܐ)

  1. generation, genealogy
  2. narrative, story, history
  3. fact, event, deed
  4. (law) cause, action, suit
  5. state, health, news
  6. argument, supposition, hypothesis
  7. discourse, tractate, treatise, essay
  8. subject, thing, matter, affair
  9. question
Inflection

References

  • šrb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2012-10-23
  • Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français : Syriac–English Dictionary, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 383a
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 597a
  • 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, p. 1600b
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