ܦܠܚܐ

From the root ܦ-ܠ-ܚ (p-l-ḥ) related to working.

• IPA^(key): [pɑlħɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [pɑlħe(ʔ)], [pɑlaħwɑθɑ(ʔ)] (plural)

ܦܠܚܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܠܚܘܬܐ or ܦܠܚܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܦܠܚܬܐ)

1. servant, attendant, agent, minister
2. artisan
3. (military) soldier
4. worker, peasant
5. vintner
6. worshipper

Chess pieces in Classical Syriac (layout · text)
ܡܠܟܐ	ܬܘܪܬܢܐ	ܡܓܕܠܐ	ܦܝܠܐ	ܣܘܣܝܐ	ܦܠܚܐ

Usually, the plural ܦܠܚܐ (pālḥē(ʾ)) is a paucal plural (from two to ten) while the plural ܦܠܚܘܬܐ (pālaḥwāṯā(ʾ)) is a multiple plural (eleven or more).

• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: pale

  → Central Kurdish: پاڵە (palle)

From the root ܦ-ܠ-ܚ (p-l-ḥ) related to working. Compare Aramaic פלחא.

• IPA^(key): [pallɑħɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [pallɑħe(ʔ)] (plural)

ܦܠܚܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܠܚܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܦܠܚܬܐ)

1. worker

   Synonym: ܦܥܠܐ

2. tiller, cultivator, farmer, agriculturalist

   Synonym: ܐܟܪܐ

3. vintner, vinedresser

   Synonyms: ܟܪܡܐ, ܚܡܪܐ

4. worshipper

• → Arabic: فَلَّاح (fallāḥ)
  • → English: fellah
  • → French: fellah
  • → German: Fellache
  • Kurdish

    → Northern Kurdish: file, fele, fileh, fillah, fille

    → Central Kurdish: فەلە (fele)

  • → Russian: фелла́х (felláx)
  • → Swahili: falahi
  • → Ottoman Turkish: فلاح
    • Turkish: felah, fellah
    • → Aromanian: fileah
    • → Bulgarian: фела́х (feláh)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      • Cyrillic script: фѐла̄х
      • Latin script: fèlāh

• “plḥ”, 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. 277a, b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 448a
• 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, pp. 1197b-1198a