ܣܘܡܟܐ

Classical Syriac

Etymology

From the root ܣ-ܡ-ܟ (s-m-k) related to supporting. The sense of "conjunction" is a calque of Arabic إِسْنَاد (ʔisnād).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [summɑxɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
  • IPA(key): [summɑxe(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܣܘܡܟܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܣܘܡܟܐ)

  1. prop, support
  2. camel's howdah
  3. reliance, dependence
  4. sustenance, maintenance, restoration
  5. (grammar) conjunction, adjoining of subject and predicate

Inflection

References

  • swmk”, 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, p. 231a
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 367a
  • 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, p. 981a
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