ܟܘܪܬܐ

With ܟܘܪܐ (kawwārā, “beehive”) and Hebrew כַּוֶּרֶת (kawwéreṯ, “beehive”) deriving from Akkadian 𒄀𒆤𒈣 (/⁠kuru⁠/, “short reed mat, collection or roll of reeds; a woven thing; hence a basket”), from Sumerian 𒄥 (gur, “to twist, to wind, to turn; a bundle, unit of measure, a basketful of barley”).

• IPA^(key): [kawwɑrtɑ], [kurtɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [kawwɑrɑθɑ], [kurɑθɑ] (plural)

ܟܘܪܬܐ • (kawwārtā, kūrtā) f (plural ܟܘܪܬܐ (kawwārātā, kūrātā))

1. beehive, honeycomb

(taking Classical Syriac as representative for all Aramaic)

• → Arabic: كُوَّارَة (kuwwāra)
• → Koine Greek: κύβερτον n (kúberton)
  • ⇒ Byzantine Greek: κυβέρτιον n (kubértion), κυβέρτιν n (kubértin)
    • Greek: κυβέρτι n (kyvérti)

• “kwrh”, 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 154a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 211b
• 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 612b