ܡܘܚܐ

From Aramaic מוחא (muħɑʔ), from Proto-Semitic *muḫḫ- (“head; brain; marrow”).

• IPA^(key): [muħɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [muħe(ʔ)] (plural)

ܡܘܚܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܡܘܚܐ)

1. (anatomy) brain; skull
2. (figuratively) any soft substance inside a hard shell; marrow, fat, egg yolk, etc.
3. bald head

• (skull): ܩܪܩܦܬܐ
• (fat): ܫܘܡܢܐ

• ܡܘܚܝܐ
• ܒܪܬ ܡܘܚܐ (baṯ mūḥā, “cerebellum”)

• “mwḥ”, 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, p. 180a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 257a
• 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. 723b

• ܚܘܡܐ

From Aramaic מוחא (muħɑʔ), from Proto-Semitic *muḫḫ- (“head; brain; marrow”).

ܡܘܚܐ • (muḥo) m

1. (anatomy) brain