Classical Syriac

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Etymology

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Compare Arabic مَعْي (maʕy) and Hebrew מְעִי (məʿî).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [maʕjɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
  • IPA(key): [m(ə)ʕajjɑ(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

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ܡܥܝܐ (transliteration neededm (plural ܡܥܝܐ)

  1. (anatomy) bowel, intestine; womb
  2. (anatomy, in the plural) insides, viscera

Inflection

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Irregular inflection with a stem ending in Yodh.

Derived terms

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References

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  • mˁyn”, 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, p. 189a
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 287b-288a
  • 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. 800a-b