Classical Syriac edit

Etymology edit

From the root ܠ-ܥ-ܣ (l-ʿ-s) related to chewing.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [malʕɑstɑ(ʔ)], [malʕastɑ(ʔ)]

Noun edit

ܡܠܥܣܬܐ (malʿāstāʾ, malʿastāʾf (plural ܡܠܥܣܐ)

  1. food, eating

Inflection edit

References edit

  • mlˁs”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2013-11-30
  • Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 174a
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 278b
  • 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. 774a