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Lexeme
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Lexeme	ܬܘܦܐ
Seyame	No
Bracket	Normal

Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Ciancaglini	English	a gun
Ciancaglini	English	bludgeon
Ciancaglini	English	club
Brock & Kiraz	English	gun.

Brock & Kiraz
Brockelmann
Ciancaglini
Margoliouth

ܬܘܦܐ

ܬܽܘܦܳܐ gun.

Sebastian P. Brock & George A. Kiraz, Gorgias Concise Syriac-English, English-Syriac Dictionary (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015) ܬܘܦܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].

ܬܘܦܐ

ܬܽܘܦܳܐ [?] twpʾ tuppā 1. club, bludgeon; 2. a gun; bullets

Loanword from Turk. or NP? LS compares NP (← Turk.) ṭōp a cannon, piece of ordnance (Steingass 821); PS Suppl. considers Syr. tūp "a gun" to be a loanword from Turkish ● club Prot 8, 5; gun Prot 12u ◆ LS 830b; PS Suppl. 339

Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008) ܬܘܦܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].

Brockelmann

Entry 40 on pp. 830

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 830 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].

Margoliouth Supplement

Entry 17 on pp. 339

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927) p. 339 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Jana Safley, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].