ܠܘܙܐ

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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Northern Kurdish lawaz.[1]

Adjective[edit]

ܠܘܙܐ (lāwāzā)[2][3]

  1. thin, lean, emaciated

References[edit]

  1. ^ Napiorkowska, Lidia (2015) A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 81), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 158, 499
  2. ^ Maclean, Arthur John (1901) “ܠܘܙܐ”, in Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac as Spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, North-West Persia and the Plain of Mosul, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 146a
  3. ^ ܠܘܙܐ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2019 March 4 (last accessed)

Classical Syriac[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Arabic لَوْز (lawz), Hebrew לוּז (lûz, almond) and the first part of Persian لوزینه, which see for more.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ܠܘܙܐ (lūzām (plural ܠܘܙܐ)

  1. almond (especially sweet almond)
  2. almond tree

Inflection[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • lwz”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 169b
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “lawzēnag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 53
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 237b
  • 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, page 677a