ܦܪܬܘܟ
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
editEtymology
editCompare Old Armenian պրտու (prtu, “paper reed”).
Noun
edit- rush, bulrush, reed
- (collectively) reeds
References
edit- ^ Maclean, Arthur John (1901) “ܦܪܬܘܟ”, 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 259
- ^ “ܦܪܬܘܟ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2020 January 9 (last accessed)
Further reading
edit- Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden[1] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 670, unaware of the Armenian