ܓܕܡܐ

From the root ܓ-ܕ-ܡ (ɡ-d-m) related to cutting off; compare Hebrew גִּזּוּם (gizzûm), Hebrew גדם (gedem). The sense of "apocope" is a calque of Arabic جَزْم (jazm).

• IPA^(key): [ɡ(ə)ðɑmɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ɡ(ə)ðɑme] (plural)

ܓܕܡܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܓܕܡܐ)

1. hewing off, disjunction, disjointedness
2. (grammar) shortening, abbreviation, contraction; absolute or construct state
3. (linguistics, prosody) apocope, apheresis

From the root ܓ-ܕ-ܡ (ɡ-d-m) related to cutting off. Compare Hebrew גֶּזֶם (gézem).

• ܓܙܡܐ

• IPA^(key): [ɡɛðmɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ɡɛðme] (plural)

ܓܕܡܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܓܕܡܐ)

1. pruned branch(es), trimmed foliage

• “gdm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 43a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 61a
• 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, page 206b