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Lexeme
Glosses

Lexeme	ܒܗܫܬ
Seyame	No

Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Ciancaglini	English	paradise

Brockelmann
Ciancaglini
Margoliouth

ܒܗܫܬ

ܒܗܫܬ bhšt paradise

MP wahišt [whšt'] paradise (CPD 86); Nyberg 201; Av. vahišta- (AirWb 1399 ff.), superl. of vahu-, lit. "the best"; ManMP whyšt /wahišt/ paradise (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 341 f.); NP bihišt Paradise, heaven (Steingass 211) ● am 2, 576, 16 ◆ LS 61b; PS Suppl. 44

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

Brockelmann

Entry 80 on pp. 61

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 61 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].

Margoliouth Supplement

Entry 16 on pp. 44

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927) p. 44 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Sebastian Kenoro Kiraz, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].