ܐܣܝܬܐ

Classical Syriac

Etymology

From Akkadian 𒀀𒍪 (asû [A.ZU]).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ʔɑsiθɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
  • IPA: [ʔɑsjɑθɑ(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܐܣܝܬܐ f (emphatic plural ܐܣܝܬܐ ; singular masculine counterpart ܐܣܝܐ)

  1. healer, physician, medical doctor; midwife; nurse
  2. healing
  3. medicine, salve

Inflection

References

  • ")syh" in the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon.
  • Louis Costaz, Syriac-English Dictionary, 1963, p. 14a
  • Jessie Payne Smith, A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of Robert Payne Smith, 1902, p. 23b
  • Michael Sokoloff, A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, 2009, p. 73a
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