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Lexeme
Glosses

Lexeme	ܨܢܓܐ
Seyame	No
Bracket	Normal

Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Ciancaglini	English	cymbal
Brock & Kiraz	English	sanj (a musical instrument).
Costaz AFSS	Arabic	صنج
Costaz AFSS	French	cymbale
Ciancaglini	Syriac	plur. ܨܢܘܓܐ ṣnwgʾ (Arab. plur., cf. Arab. ṣanūǧ)

Brock & Kiraz
Brockelmann
Ciancaglini
Costaz AFSS

ܨܢܓܐ

ܨܳܢܓܳܐ (pl. ܨܢܽܘ̈ܓܶܐ) sanj (a musical instrument).

Sebastian P. Brock & George A. Kiraz, Gorgias Concise Syriac-English, English-Syriac Dictionary (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015) ܨܢܓܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Dec. 27, 2024].

ܨܢܓܐ

ܨܳܢـܓܳܐ ṣngʾ ṣāngā cymbal; plur. ܨܢܘܓܐ ṣnwgʾ (Arab. plur., cf. Arab. ṣanūǧ)

MP čang [cng] harp (CPD 21); ManMP šnng /šang/ harp (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 319); NP čang harp, lute (Steingass 400); NP, Arab. ṣanǰ an Arabian cymbal (Steingass 793); it seems necessary to consider the possibility of various semantic and formal interferences with Syr. zngʾ (see s.v.) ● ON 97, 4; SB 29 n. 5 ◆ LS 632b; Fraenkel 1886, 284

Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008) ܨܢܓܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Dec. 27, 2024].

ܨܢܓܐ

صنجar. ܨܢܽܘ̈ܓܶܐpl.

cymbale

cymbal

صنج

Louis Costaz, S. J., Dictionnaire Syriaque-Français / Syriac-English Dictionary / قاموس سرياني عربي (Beirut: Dar al-Machreq; transcribed into tables by the American Foundation for Syriac Studies, NJ) ܨܢܓܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Dec. 27, 2024].

Brockelmann

Entry 100 on pp. 632

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 632 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Dec. 27, 2024].