Classical Syriac edit

Etymology 1 edit

From the root ܢ-ܓ-ܠ (n-ɡ-l). Compare Hebrew מַגָּל (maggāl), Arabic مِنْجَل (minjal) (according to Fraenkel perhaps borrowed from Aramaic), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܡܲܓܠܵܐ (māgyla), as well as Persian منگال (mangâl), Zoroastrian Dari mangāl, Semitic loanwords.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [maɡ(ɡə)lɑ] (singular)
  • IPA(key): [maɡ(ɡə)le] (plural)

Noun edit

ܡܓܠܐ (maggǝlāf (plural ܡܓܠܐ)

  1. (agriculture) sickle
    Synonym: ܚܨܘܕܐ
Inflection edit
Descendants edit

References edit

  • mgl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մանգաղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 251b
  • Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 197a
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 133
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 311
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 250b
  • 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, page 709a

Etymology 2 edit

Same as above.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ܡܓܠܐ (transliteration needed)

  1. absolute singular of ܡܓܠܬܐ

Etymology 3 edit

From the root ܓ-ܠ-ܠ (ɡ-l-l).

Noun edit

ܡܓܠܐ (transliteration needed)

  1. absolute singular of ܡܓܠܬܐ

Pronunciation 1 edit

Noun edit

ܡܓܠܐ (transliteration needed)

  1. emphatic plural of ܡܓܠܬܐ

Pronunciation 2 edit

Anagrams edit