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Lexeme
Glosses

Lexeme	ܠܝܟܐ
Seyame	No

Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Ciancaglini	English	gum-lac

Brockelmann
Ciancaglini
Margoliouth

ܠܝܟܐ

ܠܝܟܐ lykʾ gum-lac

Allotrope: ܠܟܐ lkʾ

MP *lāk, NP lāk (Steingass 1127), ← OInd. lākṣā́-, rākṣā́- lac, red dye (Mayrhofer KEWA 3, 96-97; Monier-Milliams 1899, 899; Turner 1966, no. 11002), Hindī lākh; Arab. (←Pers.) lakk ● lykʾ Duv B 2, 2, 14; lkʾ Duv B 2, 50, 6; Med 309, 20 ◆ PS Suppl. 180; Mancini 1992, 83 and 99

Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008) ܠܝܟܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Dec. 22, 2024].

Brockelmann

Entry 60 on pp. 366

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 366 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Dec. 22, 2024].

Margoliouth Supplement

Entry 25 on pp. 180

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927) p. 180 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Jillian Marcantonio, accessed on Dec. 22, 2024].