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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