Assyrian Neo-Aramaic edit

Etymology edit

From Northern Kurdish lawaz.[1]

Adjective edit

ܠܘܙܐ (lāwāzā)[2][3]

  1. thin, lean, emaciated

References edit

  1. ^ Napiorkowska, Lidia (2015) A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 81), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 158, 499
  2. ^ Maclean, Arthur John (1901), “ܠܘܙܐ”, in Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac as Spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, North-West Persia and the Plain of Mosul, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 146a
  3. ^ ܠܘܙܐ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, accessed 2019-03-04

Classical Syriac edit

Etymology edit

Compare Arabic لَوْز (lawz), Hebrew לוּז (lûz, almond) and the first part of Persian لوزینه, which see for more.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ܠܘܙܐ (lūzām (plural ܠܘܙܐ)

  1. almond (especially sweet almond)
  2. almond tree

Inflection edit

See also edit

References edit

  • lwz”, 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, page 169b
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “lawzēnag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 53
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 237b
  • 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 677a