ܣ

ܣ U+0723, ܣ
SYRIAC LETTER SEMKATH
← ܢ
[U+0722] 		Syriac ܤ →
[U+0724]

Translingual

Letter

ܣ

  1. Syriac letter samekh

Classical Syriac

Etymology

Ultimately from Phoenician 𐤎 (s, “samekh”). Compare Arabic س (s) and Hebrew ס (s).

Pronunciation
  • (letter name) IPA(key): [sɛmkaθ]
  • (sound) IPA(key): [s]

Letter

ܣ • (transliteration needed)

  1. samekh, fifteenth letter of the Syriac alphabet

Coordinate terms
  • Previous: ܢ
  • Next: ܥ

Descendants
  • ⇒ Old Turkic: 𐰽 (s¹)

See also
  • ܣܡܟܬ

Numeral

ܣ • (transliteration needed)

  1. number sixty (60)

References
  • “s”, 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. 216a
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 356a
  • 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. 958a
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