ܐܡܐ

From Proto-Semitic *ʔimm-.

• IPA^(key): [ʔɛmmɑ(ʔ)]

ܐܡܐ • (transliteration needed) f (plural ܐܡܗܐ or ܐܡܗܬܐ, singular masculine counterpart ܐܒܐ)

1. mother
2. abbess
3. metropolis
4. (figuratively) source, origin
5. (anatomy) womb

• ܐܘܡܬܐ
• ܐܡܐ ܕܓܡܠܐ
• ܐܡܐ ܕܡܕܝܢܬܐ
• ܐܡܐ ܕܪܝܫܐ
• ܐܡܘܡܐ

Compare Hebrew אַמָּה (ʾammâ).

• IPA^(key): [ʔammɑ(ʔ)], [ʔɑmɑ(ʔ)], [ʔemɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ʔamme(ʔ)], [ʔɑme(ʔ)], [ʔeme(ʔ)] (plural)

ܐܡܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܐܡܐ)

1. canal, aqueduct

ܐܡܐ • (transliteration needed)

1. absolute singular of ܐܡܬܐ

• IPA^(key): [ʔammɑ(ʔ)]

ܐܡܐ • (transliteration needed)

1. emphatic plural of ܐܡܬܐ

• IPA^(key): [ʔamme(ʔ)]

• “ˀm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-07-02
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 11a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 18b
• 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. 52b

From Aramaic אמא (ʾemā)

• IPA^(key): /ʔemo/

ܐܶܡܳܐ • (ʾemo) m

1. mother

• ܒܰܒܳܐ (babo)

From the older form *ܐܶܡܰܬܝ (emat), from Aramaic אִמַתִי (ʾimmatt(ī)), compare Biblical Hebrew מתי

• IPA^(key): /ʔema/

ܐܶܡܰܐ • (ʾema)

1. when

• ܠܐܶܡܰܐ (lema, “till when”)
• ܡܐܶܡܰܐ (mema, “since when”)