ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܐ

Classical Syriac

FWOTD – 4 March 2021

ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܐ – Polypodium vulgare

Etymology

Literally “many feet”, calque of Ancient Greek πολυπόδιον (polupódion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [saɡ.ɡiˈrɛɣ.le]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [saɡ.ɡiˈrɪɣ.le]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [sɑ.ɡiˈrɛɣ.le]

Noun

ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܐ • (saggī reḡlē) m pl

1. polypod, the animal polyp
2. rockcap fern (Polypodium gen. et spp.)
   • a. 1248, ابن البيطار [Ibn al-Bayṭār], الجامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية [De simplicibus medicinis opus magnum] (in Arabic):

     سكي رغلا: وسقي رغلا أيضاً معناه الكثير الأرجل بالسريانية وهو البسبايج وقد ذكرته في الباء.

     Saggī reḡlē, also its meaning being many feet, is in Syriac the rockcap fern, which has already been treated under the letter bee.

3. (pathology) polyp (especially nasal polyp)

Inflection

    declension of ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܐ

state	singular	plural
absolute	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝܢ
construct	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝ
emphatic	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܐ
possessive forms
1st c. sg. (my)	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝ
2nd m. sg. (your)	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝܟ
2nd f. sg. (your)	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝܟܝ
3rd m. sg. (his)	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܘܗܝ
3rd f. sg. (her)	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝܗ
1st c. pl. (our)	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝܢ
2nd m. pl. (your)	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝܟܘܢ
2nd f. pl. (your)	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝܟܝܢ
3rd m. pl. (their)	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝܗܘܢ
3rd f. pl. (their)	—	ܣܓܝ ܪܓܠܝܗܝܢ

References

• “sgy**rglˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2020-09-15
• Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 458a
• Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 12
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 268
• Payne Margoliouth, Jessie (1927) Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, S.T.P., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 222b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 360b
• 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 968b