ܥܘܒܐ

Classical Syriac

Etymology

Compare Arabic عُبّ (ʕubb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʕubbɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
  • IPA(key): [ʕubbe(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܥܘܒܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܥܘܒܐ)

  1. (anatomy) bosom, breast; lap; womb
  2. hollow, recess, cavity, core
  3. pocket, receptacle
  4. concavity
  5. (geography) gulf, bay, lagoon
  6. (botany) calyx
  7. (carpentry) plane
  8. (trigonometry, mathematics) sine
  9. (pathology, in the plural) piles, haemorrhoids/hemorrhoids

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References

  • ˁwb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 403a
  • 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. 1076a
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