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Lexeme
Glosses

Lexeme	ܓܘܪܒܙܐ
Seyame	No
Category	Noun

Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Ciancaglini	English	a cheat
Margoliouth	English	a knave/cheat
Ciancaglini	English	sharper

Brockelmann
Ciancaglini
Margoliouth

ܓܘܪܒܙܐ

ܓܽܘܪܒܳܙܳܐ gwrbzʾ gurbāzā a cheat, sharper

Allotrope: ܓܘܪܒܨܐ gwrbṣʾ. Derivative: ܓܘܼܪܒܙܵܝܵܐ gwrbzyʾ gurbzāyā id.

Probably from (an antecedent of) NP gurbuz a deceiver, seducer (Steingass 1078) ● gwrbzʾ KwDW 30, 3 and 18; 34, 8; gwrbṣʾ BB 914, 20; gwrbzyʾ BB 2053, 18 ◆ LS 130b; PS Suppl. 71; Duval index pers. 216

Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008) ܓܘܪܒܙܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Feb. 22, 2025].

Brockelmann
Brockelmann (Subentries)

Entry 80 on pp. 130

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 130 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Feb. 22, 2025].

Entry 81 on pp. 130

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 130 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Feb. 22, 2025].

Margoliouth
Margoliouth Supplement

Entry 7 on pp. 66

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1903) p. 66 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Brandon L. Allen, accessed on Feb. 22, 2025].

Entry 4 on pp. 71

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927) p. 71 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Sebastian Kenoro Kiraz, accessed on Feb. 22, 2025].