ܠܒܢ

Classical Syriac

Etymology

From Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”), compare Biblical Hebrew לָבָן

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lɑbɑn/

Proper noun

ܠܒܢ • (lābān)

  1. (biblical) Laban
  2. a male given name

References
  • Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 690
  • Bar Bahlul, Ḥasan (a. 1000) Duval, Rubens, editor, Lexicon Syriacum (Collection Orientale; 15–17) (in Classical Syriac), Paris: e Reipublicæ typographæo, published 1901, page 468
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