ܥܣܒܐ

Classical Syriac

Etymology

Compare Arabic عُشْب (ʿušb) and Hebrew עֵשֶׂב (ʿḗśeḇ).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ʕɛsbɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA: [ʕɛs(ə)ve(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܥܣܒܐ m (emphatic plural ܥܣܒܐ)

1. (botany) grass, green herb

Inflection

    declension of ܥܣܒܐ

state	singular	plural
absolute	ܥܣܒ	ܥܣܒܝܢ
construct	ܥܣܒ	ܥܣܒܝ
emphatic	ܥܣܒܐ	ܥܣܒܐ
possessive forms
1st c. sg. (my)	ܥܣܒܝ	ܥܣܒܝ
2nd m. sg. (your)	ܥܣܒܟ	ܥܣܒܝܟ
2nd f. sg. (your)	ܥܣܒܟܝ	ܥܣܒܝܟܝ
3rd m. sg. (his)	ܥܣܒܗ	ܥܣܒܘܗܝ
3rd f. sg. (her)	ܥܣܒܗ	ܥܣܒܝܗ
1st c. pl. (our)	ܥܣܒܢ	ܥܣܒܝܢ
2nd m. pl. (your)	ܥܣܒܟܘܢ	ܥܣܒܝܟܘܢ
2nd f. pl. (your)	ܥܣܒܟܝܢ	ܥܣܒܝܟܝܢ
3rd m. pl. (their)	ܥܣܒܗܘܢ	ܥܣܒܝܗܘܢ
3rd f. pl. (their)	ܥܣܒܗܝܢ	ܥܣܒܝܗܝܢ

References

• "(sb" in the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon.
• Louis Costaz, Syriac-English Dictionary, 1963, p. 258b
• Jessie Payne Smith, A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of Robert Payne Smith, 1902, p. 420b
• Michael Sokoloff, A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, 2009, p. 1118b