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Lexeme
Glosses

Lexeme	ܣܪܘܫ
Seyame	No

Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Margoliouth Supplement	English	the Obedient
Ciancaglini	English	whitened copper

Ciancaglini
Margoliouth

ܣܪܘܫ

ܣܪܘܫ srwš whitened copper

According to PS Suppl. 241, this word was borrowed from MP Srōš [slwš], ManMP srwš, the god Obedience (CPD 77), NP Surōš id. (Steingass 680); PS Suppl. adds that with alchemists this term would be a name indicating whitened copper ● Duv B 2, 3, 7; BB 1388, 22 ◆ LS 502a; PS Suppl. 241

Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008) ܣܪܘܫ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Dec. 21, 2024].

Margoliouth Supplement

Entry 18 on pp. 241

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927) p. 241 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Jillian Marcantonio, accessed on Dec. 21, 2024].