ܫܘܪܛܐ

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Root
ܫ ܪ ܛ (š r ṭ)
3 terms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac, from Arabic شُرْطَة (šurṭa), itself ultimately from a phono-semantic matching of Latin cohors (cohort, bodyguard).

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): [ʃur.tˤɑː]

Noun

ܫܘܼܪܛܵܐ • (šurṭā) m (collective, singulative ܫܘܼܪܛܵܝܵܐ (šurṭāyā), plural ܫܘܼܪ̈ܛܹܐ (šurṭē))

  1. royal guard, city watchman
  2. Praetorian
  3. (modern) police, policemen
    ܩܪܝܼ ܫܘܼܪܛܵܐ ܐܵܕܝܼܵܐ!qrī šurṭā ādīyā!Call the police now!

Inflection

Derived terms

Classical Syriac

Etymology 1

From Arabic شُرْطَة (šurṭa).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃurtˤɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
  • IPA(key): [ʃurtˤe(ʔ)] (plural)

Noun

ܫܘܪܛܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܫܘܪܛܐ)

  1. guard, royal guard, city watchman
  2. (in the plural) Praetorian guard
Inflection

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃurtˤɑ(ʔ)]

Noun

ܫܘܪܛܐ • (transliteration needed) f (plural ܫܘܪܛܝܬܐ)

  1. pea, pulse, oat
Inflection

References

  • šwrṭˀ”, 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. 383b
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 568b
  • 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. 1536a
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