ܨܗܝܘܢ
Classical Syriac
editEtymology
editFrom Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyōn), perhaps influenced by ܨܗܝܘܬܐ (ṣahyūṯā, “thirst”).
Proper noun
editܨܸܗܝܘܿܢ • (ṣɛhyōn)
Descendants
edit- → Arabic: صِهْيُون (ṣihyūn)
References
edit- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 474
- Bar Bahlul, Ḥasan (a. 1000) Duval, Rubens, editor, Lexicon Syriacum (Collection Orientale; 15–17) (in Classical Syriac), Paris: e Reipublicæ typographæo, published 1901, page 826