ארבעא

Aramaic

Aramaic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ארבעא (ʾarbəʿā)     Ordinal : רביעי (rəḇīˁāy)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔarbaʕatum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔarbə.ˈʕɑ/
• (Ashkenazi) IPA^(key): /arbə.ˈɔ/

Numeral

אַרְבְּעָא • (ʾarbəʿā) m (feminine אַרְבַּע (ʾarbaʿ))

1. four (4)
   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Sanhedrin, 95a:

     הַהוּא יוֹמָא אַפַּנְיָא דְמַעֲלֵי שַׁבְּתָא הֲוָה אֲבִישַׁי בֶּן צְרוּיָה הֲוָה קָא חָיֵיף רֵישֵׁיהּ בְּאַרְבְּעָא גַּרְבֵּי דְּמַיָּא חֲזִינְהוּ כִּתְמֵי דְּמָא

     ha-hu yomå apanəyå dhə-maʿălēi šabtå hăwå Ăbhišai ben Śəruya hăwå qå ḥåyyef rēšēh bə-arbəʿå garbēi də-mayyå ḥăzinəhu kithmēi dəmå

     That day at dusk on Friday night, Abishai son of Zeruiah washed his head with four buckets of water and he saw that many bloodstains.

Descendants

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܒܥܵܐ (arbˁā)

References

• “ˀrbˁˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), “אַרְבָּעָה”, in A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons