ܠܘܫܐ

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Root
ܠ ܘ ܫ (l w š)
1 term

Etymology

From the root ܠܘܫ (lwš, “to knead, mix; to weld, solder, braze”), whence also ܠܐܵܫܵܐ (lāšā, “to knead , to work and press into a mass (usually with the hands)”), ܠܝܵܫܵܐ (liāšā, “to knead , to work and press into a mass usually with the hands, to work by repeated pressure with the knuckles into a well-mixed mass (like dough)”).[1][2] See Armenian լավաշ (lavaš) for more.

Noun

ܠܵܘܵܫܵܐ • (lāwāšā) m[3][1][4]

  1. a flap of thin bread about 50 centimeters long, lavash

References
  1. “ܠܘܫܐ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2019 March 3 (last accessed)
  2. “ܠܘܫ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, 2019 March 4 (last accessed)
  3. Maclean, Arthur John (1901) “ܠܘܫܐ”, in Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac as Spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, North-West Persia and the Plain of Mosul, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 147a
  4. Napiorkowska, Lidia (2015) A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 81), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 499
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