Classical Syriac

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tˁɑvɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [tˁɑve(ʔ)] (plural)

Adjective

ܛܒܐ • ‎(ṭāḇā) m ‎(plural ܛܒܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܛܒܬܐ)

1. good, pleasant
2. valuable, precious
3. excellent, honourable
4. useful
5. equivalent
6. strong
7. happy, joyful
8. beautiful
9. kind, gracious, benevolent, beneficent, favourable
10. (botany) cultivated

Inflection

Noun

ܛܒܐ • ‎(transliteration needed) m ‎(plural ܛܒܐ)

1. good, goodness, excellence
2. virtue, benefit
3. kindness, benevolence
4. prosperity
5. (in the plural) notable persons

Inflection

Etymology 2

From the root ܛ-ܒ-ܒ ‎(ṭ-b-b) related to informing. The sense of "predicate" is a calque of Arabic خَبَر ‎(ḫabar).

Alternative forms

• ܛܐܒܐ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tˁɛbbɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [tˁɛbbe(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܛܒܐ • ‎(transliteration needed) m ‎(plural ܛܒܐ)

1. message, report, news, tidings, knowledge
2. rumor/rumour, saying, story
3. fame
4. thing, affair
5. (grammar) predicate

Inflection

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tˁ(ə)ve(ʔ)]

Noun

ܛܒܐ • ‎(transliteration needed)

1. absolute singular of ܛܒܝܐ
2. construct singular of ܛܒܝܐ

References

• “Tb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français : Syriac–English Dictionary, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, pp. 121b, 123a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 165a-b, 166a
• 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, pp. 507b-508a