Classical Syriac edit

Etymology edit

From the root ܕ-ܪ-ܫ (d-r-š) related to threshing.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [durrɑʃɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
  • IPA(key): [durrɑʃe(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun edit

ܕܘܪܫܐ (transliteration neededm (plural ܕܘܪܫܐ)

  1. training, teaching, instruction, exercise, experience
  2. discipline, study, erudition
  3. disputation, investigation
  4. (law) litigation
  5. contest, struggle

Inflection edit

References edit

  • dwrš”, 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. 71b
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 88a
  • 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. 288a-b