ܓܘܪܢܐ

Mayhaps to the large from Akkadian 𒄖𒊒𒌦𒉡 (/⁠gurunnu, garunnu⁠/, “a small ritual jug, urn, or basin; possibly a mortar”); but there might have been genuine meanings which got lost because of the urban environment of Aramaic speakers. See Arabic جُرْن (jurn) for more.

• IPA^(key): [ɡurnɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ɡurne] (plural)

ܓܘܪܢܐ • (gūrnā) c (plural ܓܘܪܢܐ (gurnē))

1. large vessel: stone bath, basin; water jar; pot, urn
2. coffin, sarcophagus

   Synonyms: ܫܩܐ (šāqā), ܢܘܫܐ (nawšā)

3. manger rack

This word is usually feminine.

Irregular absolute and construct singular with a varying Waw.

• → Arabic: جُرْن (jurn, “basin”) (semantic loan) (taking Syriac as representative for all Aramaic)
• → Middle Armenian: գուռն (guṙn), գուռ (guṙ)
  • Armenian: գուռ (guṙ)
  • → Northern Kurdish: kurn, kurin, kur
  • → Ottoman Turkish: قورنه (kurna), قرنه (kurna), قورنا (kurna)
    • Turkish: kurna
    • → Armenian: խուռնա (xuṙna)
    • → Macedonian: курна (kurna)
  • → Turkish: gürün, kürün, kurun[1]
• → Ancient Greek: γοῦρνα (goûrna) (taking Syriac as representative for all Aramaic)
  • Sicilian: gurna
    • Italian: gorna (regional, Sicily)

• “gwrn”, 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 45b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 66b
• 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 221b