جريث

Arabic

جِرِّيث

Alternative forms

• قِرِّيث (qirrīṯ), جِرِّيّ (jirriyy)

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic גּוּרְיְתָא (gūrəyṯā, “young female cub; slime eel, hagfish”), feminine form of גּוּרְיָא (gūrəyā, “cub”), thus doublet of جُرْو (jurw, “cub”).

Noun

جِرِّيث • (jirrīṯ) m

1. slime eel, hagfish

Declension

Declension of noun جِرِّيث (jirrīṯ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جِرِّيث jirrīṯ	الْجِرِّيث al-jirrīṯ	جِرِّيث jirrīṯ
Nominative	جِرِّيثٌ jirrīṯun	الْجِرِّيثُ al-jirrīṯu	جِرِّيثُ jirrīṯu
Accusative	جِرِّيثًا jirrīṯan	الْجِرِّيثَ al-jirrīṯa	جِرِّيثَ jirrīṯa
Genitive	جِرِّيثٍ jirrīṯin	الْجِرِّيثِ al-jirrīṯi	جِرِّيثِ jirrīṯi

References

• “gwry”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “gyrytˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “grry”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 10
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 121
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “جريث”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 262
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “جريث”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 404
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[3] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 96–97
• Růžička, Rudolf (1909) “Konsonantische Dissimilation in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[4] (in German), volume VI, number 4, Leipzig · Baltimore: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung · The Johns Hopkins Press, page 28