ריקא

Aramaic

Alternative forms

Syriac: ܪܝܩܐ

Etymology

Compare Biblical Hebrew רֵיק (rêq, “empty”), Akkadian riāqum (“to be empty”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /rejqɑʔ/

Adjective

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רֵיקָא • (rēqā) m (plural)

Noun

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רֵיקָא • (rēqā or transliteration needed) m (plural רֵיקֵא (rēqē), singular feminine counterpart רֵיקְתָּא)

a vain or worthless person

Usage notes

Occurs in rabbinic writings as a term of personal abuse, and differs little from "fool".^[1]

Descendants

→ Ancient Greek: ῥακά (rhaká), ῥαχά (rhakhá) — in one manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew; ῥαχᾶς (rhakhâs) — in one 3rd century BC papyrus
- → Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰 (raka)
- → Latin: raca
- → Old Armenian: ռակայ (ṙakay), ռակկայ (ṙakkay), ռակա (ṙaka)
- → Old Georgian: რაკა (raḳa)
- → Old Church Slavonic: рака (raka)
  - → Old East Slavic: рака (raka)
→ Old Armenian: երախայ (eraxay)

References

^ France R. T. (2007) The Gospel of Matthew‎^[1], Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, page 953

“ryq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1476
Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press

[1] France R. T. (2007) The Gospel of Matthew‎^[1], Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, page 953

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