אצבעא

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Aramaic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *ʔiṣbaʕ-. Compare Hebrew אֶצְבַּע (ʔɛṣbaʕ).

Noun

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אֶצְבְּעָא (ʾeṣbəʿām (plural אֶצְבְּעָתָא) (Imperial Aramaic, Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Christian Palestinian Aramaic)

  1. finger
    • Tanach, Daniel 5:5, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
      בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָה נפקו (נְפַקָה) אֶצְבְּעָן דִּי יַד־אֱנָשׁ וְכָתְבָן לָקֳבֵל נֶבְרַשְׁתָּא עַל־גִּירָא דִּי־כְתַל הֵיכְלָא דִּי מַלְכָּא וּמַלְכָּא חָזֵה פַּס יְדָא דִּי כָתְבָה׃
      bah-šaʿăṯā nəp̄áqā ʾeṣbəʿān dī yaḏ-ʾĕnāš wəḵāṯəḇān loqŏḇēl neḇraštā ʿal-gīrā dī-ḵəṯal hēḵəlā dī malkā ūmalkā ḥāzē pas yəḏā dī ḵāṯəḇā.
      In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.
  2. toe

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