ܢܝܦܓܗ [†] nypgh a bag of musk
LS suggests the comparison with NP, Arab. nāfiǰa, nāfiǰat a bag of musk (Steingass 1375); nāfa a bag or bladder of musk (ibid. 1376); as to the rendering of Ir. /ā/ with Syr. y see § 11.3.6. Gignoux (personal communication), however, believes that the word was borrowed from Arabic into Persian; consequently, it is more probable that Syr. nypgh was borrowed from Arabic than from NP, as seems confirmed by the spelling with a final -h, which represents the Arabic tāʾ marbūṭa; cf. Lazard 1987, 170 ● Bh chr 159, 1 ◆ LS 435b