ܘܨ

Classical Syriac

Etymology

From Middle Persian *vač, from which developed Neo-Persian وج (vaj).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ˈwasˤ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈwasˤ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈwɑsˤ]

Noun

ܘܲܨ or ܘܰܨ • (waṣ) m

1. sweet flag, Acorus calamus

Inflection

Indeclinable, but declinable if it were to have an emphatic state as *ܘܲܨܵܐ / *ܘܰܨܳܐ (*waṣṣā). The hypothetical forms would be:

    inflection of ܘܨ

state	singular	plural
absolute	ܘܨ	ܘܨܝܢ
construct	ܘܨ	ܘܨܝ
emphatic	ܘܨܐ	ܘܨܐ
possessive forms
1st c. sg. (my)	ܘܨܝ	ܘܨܝ
2nd m. sg. (your)	ܘܨܟ	ܘܨܝܟ
2nd f. sg. (your)	ܘܨܟܝ	ܘܨܝܟܝ
3rd m. sg. (his)	ܘܨܗ	ܘܨܘܗܝ
3rd f. sg. (her)	ܘܨܗ	ܘܨܝܗ
1st c. pl. (our)	ܘܨܢ	ܘܨܝܢ
2nd m. pl. (your)	ܘܨܟܘܢ	ܘܨܝܟܘܢ
2nd f. pl. (your)	ܘܨܟܝܢ	ܘܨܝܟܝܢ
3rd m. pl. (their)	ܘܨܗܘܢ	ܘܨܝܗܘܢ
3rd f. pl. (their)	ܘܨܗܝܢ	ܘܨܝܗܝܢ

References

• “wṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2021-06-21
• Bar ʿalī (Īshōʿ) (a. 900) Gottheil, Richard, editor, Syrisch-arabische Glossen [ʔ-m] (in Classical Syriac), Kiel: Schwers’sche Buchhandlung, published 1874, Nr. 3386
• Bar Bahlul, Ḥasan (a. 1000) Duval, Rubens, editor, Lexicon Syriacum (Collection Orientale; 15–17) (in Classical Syriac), Paris: e Reipublicæ typographæo, published 1901, page 332, column 667
• Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 185b
• Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, pages 40–41, Nr. 100
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[1] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 131, Nr. 87