ܒܒܠ
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic edit
Alternative forms edit
- ܒܵܒ݂ܸܠ (bāḇil), ܒܵܒ݂ܹܝܠ (bāḇēl)
Etymology edit
From Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim). More at Babylon.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
ܒܵܒ݂ܹܠ • (bāḇēl) f
- Babylon, Babel (capital of ancient Babylonia)
- Babylonia (ancient region and empire of southern Mesopotamia)
Derived terms edit
- ܒܵܒ݂ܠܵܝܵܐ (bāḇlāyā, “Babylonian”)
Classical Syriac edit
Etymology edit
From Aramaic בבל (bāḇel), from Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
ܒܒܠ • (bāḇel)
- Babylon, Babel (capital of ancient Babylonia)
- Synonym: ܒܒܝܠ (bāvil)
- Babylon Province/Babil Governorate
- Synonym: ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܒܒܠ
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “bbly”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 34
- Bar Bahlul, Ḥasan (a. 1000) Duval, Rubens, editor, Lexicon Syriacum (Collection Orientale; 15–17) (in Classical Syriac), Paris: e Reipublicæ typographæo, published 1901, page 175
- 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 137