ܨܨܠܐ

Classical Syriac

Alternative forms

  • ܨܝܨܠܐ (ṣēṣəlāʾ)

Etymology

Compare Arabic صَلْصَل (ṣalṣal) and Hebrew צִלְצֵל (ṣilṣēl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sˤɛsˤ(sˤə)lɑ(ʔ)], [sˤesˤ(ə)lɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
  • IPA(key): [sˤɛsˤ(sˤə)le(ʔ)], [sˤesˤ(ə)le(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܨܨܠܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܨܨܠܐ)

  1. (music) cymbal, castanet
  2. (of birds) chirping, cooing

Inflection

Descendants

  • Old Armenian: ծնծղայ (cncłay)

References

  • ṣṣl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2013-07-28
  • Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 304b
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 483b
  • 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. 1300a
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