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Lexeme
Glosses

Lexeme	ܡܘܒܕܢ ܡܘܒܕ
Seyame	No

Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Ciancaglini	English	chief of the Magi

Brockelmann
Ciancaglini
Margoliouth

ܡܘܒܕܢ ܡܘܒܕ

ܡܰܘܒܕܳܢ ܡܰܘܒܶܕ mwbdn mwbd mawbdān mawbed chief of the Magi

MP mowbedān mowbed; in Syr. is also attested ܪܒ ܡܓܘܫܐ rb mgwšʾ "grand mage" (Gignoux 1986, 101 n. 30), probably a hybrid calque containing the older form of the loanword mgwšʾ (see s.v.) ● MAMQ 57, 14 ◆ LS 373b; PS Suppl. 186 f.

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

Brockelmann

Entry 40 on pp. 373

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 373 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Feb. 22, 2025].

Margoliouth Supplement

Entry 29A on pp. 186

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927) p. 186 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Sebastian Kenoro Kiraz, accessed on Feb. 22, 2025].