ܠܘܫܐ

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Root
ܠ ܘ ܫ (l w š)
1 term

Etymology

From the root ܠܘܫ (lwš, “to knead, mix; to weld, solder, braze”), whence also ܠܐܵܫܵܐ (lāšā, “to knead , to work and press into a mass (usually with the hands)”), ܠܝܵܫܵܐ (liāšā, “to knead , to work and press into a mass usually with the hands, to work by repeated pressure with the knuckles into a well-mixed mass (like dough)”).^[1]^[2] See Armenian լավաշ (lavaš) for more.

Noun

ܠܵܘܵܫܵܐ • (lāwāšā) m^[3]^[1]^[4]

lavash (a soft, thin flatbread made with flour, water, yeast, and salt, baked in a tandoor)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “ܠܘܫܐ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2019 March 3 (last accessed)
^ “ܠܘܫ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2019 March 4 (last accessed)
^ Maclean, Arthur John (1901) “ܠܘܫܐ”, 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 147a
^ Napiorkowska, Lidia (2015) A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 81), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 499

[Sureth-1] 1.0 ^1.1 “ܠܘܫܐ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2019 March 3 (last accessed)

[2] “ܠܘܫ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2019 March 4 (last accessed)

[3] Maclean, Arthur John (1901) “ܠܘܫܐ”, 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 147a

[4] Napiorkowska, Lidia (2015) A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 81), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 499

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