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Lexeme
Glosses

Lexeme	ܒܢܦܣܓܝ
Seyame	No

Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Ciancaglini	English	violet-colour

Brockelmann
Ciancaglini
Margoliouth

ܒܢܦܣܓܝ

ܒܢܦܣܓܝ bnpsgy violet-colour

MP *wanafšagīg, or a derivative from NP banafsaǰ, but LS quotes only Arab. banafsaǧ. The second hypothesis seems supported by the internal -s- instead of -š-: see the previous entry ● HV Chr 150, 22 ◆ LS 79b; 395b; Lagarde GA 22, 49; Löw 251 and 191; PS Suppl. 57 and 197

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

Brockelmann

Entry 130 on pp. 79

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 79 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].

Margoliouth Supplement

Entry 19 on pp. 57

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927) p. 57 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Sebastian Kenoro Kiraz, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].