ܡܝܛܪܢ

Classical Syriac

Alternative forms

• ܡܛܪܐܢ
• ܡܝܛܪܐܢ

Etymology

From Arabic مِطْرَان (miṭrān).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [mitˁrɑn] (singular and plural)

Noun

ܡܝܛܪܢ m (emphatic plural ܡܝܛܪܢ)

1. (Christianity) metropolitan, archbishop

Synonyms

• ܡܝܛܪܘܦܘܠܝܛܐ

References

• "myTrn" in the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon.
• Louis Costaz, Syriac-English Dictionary, 1963, p. 181b
• Jessie Payne Smith, A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of Robert Payne Smith, 1902, p. 269a
• Michael Sokoloff, A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, 2009, p. 752a