ܦܪܬܘܟ

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Etymology

Compare Old Armenian պրտու (prtu, “paper reed”).

Noun

ܦܪܬܘܟ • (pirtūk)[1][2]

  1. rush, bulrush, reed
  2. (collectively) reeds

References
  1. 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
  2. “ܦܪܬܘܟ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2020 January 9 (last accessed)

Further reading
  • Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 670, unaware of the Armenian
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