Classical Syriac

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃarbɑ(ʔ)], [ʃarrɑvɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ʃarbe(ʔ)], [ʃarrɑve(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܫܪܒܐ • ‎(šarbāʾ, šarrāḇāʾ) m ‎(plural ܫܪܒܐ)

1. hot wind, simoom

Inflection

Etymology 2

From the root ܫ-ܪ-ܒ ‎(š-r-b) related to dryness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃ(ə)rɑvɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ʃ(ə)rɑve(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܫܪܒܐ • ‎(šərāḇāʾ) m ‎(plural ܫܪܒܐ)

1. drought

Inflection

Etymology 3

From the root ܫ-ܪ-ܒ ‎(š-r-b) related to propagating.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃarbɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ʃarbe(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܫܪܒܐ • ‎(šarbāʾ) m ‎(plural ܫܪܒܐ)

1. generation, genealogy
2. narrative, story, history
3. fact, event, deed
4. (law) cause, action, suit
5. state, health, news
6. argument, supposition, hypothesis
7. discourse, tractate, treatise, essay
8. subject, thing, matter, affair
9. question

Inflection

References

• “$rb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2012-10-23
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français : Syriac–English Dictionary, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 383a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 597a
• 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. 1600b