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Lexeme
Glosses

Lexeme	ܙܪܢܝܟܐ
Seyame	No
Bracket	Normal

Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Ciancaglini	English	arsenic
Brock & Kiraz	English	arsenic.
Costaz AFSS	Arabic	زرنيق
Costaz AFSS	French	arsenic
Ciancaglini	Greek	σανδαράχης

Audo
Brock & Kiraz
Brockelmann
Ciancaglini
Costaz AFSS
Margoliouth

Entry 3 on pp. 295 in vol. 1

Toma Audo, Treasure of the Syriac Language: A Dictionary of Classical Syriac (Mosul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1897-[1901]. Reprints: Chicago, 1978; Stockholm, 1979; Glane/Losser, 1985; Piscataway, NJ, 2008) Vol 1, p. 295 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by George A. Kiraz, accessed on Jan. 03, 2025].

ܙܪܢܝܟܐ

ܙܰܪܢܺܝܟܳܐ arsenic.

Sebastian P. Brock & George A. Kiraz, Gorgias Concise Syriac-English, English-Syriac Dictionary (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015) ܙܪܢܝܟܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Jan. 03, 2025].

ܙܪܢܝܟܐ

ܙܰܪܢܺܝܟܳܐ zrnykʾ zarnikā 1. arsenic; 2. σανδαράχης

OP *zarniyaka- arsenic (Median, see Hinz 1975, 278); Arm. LW zaṙik orpiment (← MP *zarrīk < *zarnīk < OP *zar(a)nya-ka-: Bolognesi 1960, 28 and Hübschmann AG 149, no. 226; directly ← OP *zarniyaka-, according to Telegdi 243, 73); NP zarnī, zarnīk, zirnīx arsenic, red arsenic (Steingass 616; Horn 145); cf. Av. zaraiia- gold (AirWb 1678) + suff. -ka-; see Schaeder 1930, 267. — Off. Aram. zrnyk (Cowley 1923, 26:17 and 21; Greenfield 1987, 257); Talm. Aram. zrnyk orpiment (Telegdi 243, 73); Arab. zirnīḫ, zarnīḫ arsenic ● zrnykʾ arsenic Kays 256, 11; 264, 21; Med 63, 15; EN 25, 63; BB 298pu; 702, 13; σανδαράχης Duv B 2, 3, 11 ◆ LS 206b–207a; Lagarde GA 47, 117; Duval index pers. 219

Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008) ܙܪܢܝܟܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Jan. 03, 2025].

ܙܪܢܝܟܐ

arsenic

زرنيق

Louis Costaz, S. J., Dictionnaire Syriaque-Français / Syriac-English Dictionary / قاموس سرياني عربي (Beirut: Dar al-Machreq; transcribed into tables by the American Foundation for Syriac Studies, NJ) ܙܪܢܝܟܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Jan. 03, 2025].

Brockelmann

Entry 180A on pp. 206

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 206 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Jan. 03, 2025].

Margoliouth
Margoliouth Supplement

Entry 6 on pp. 121

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1903) p. 121 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by mzina, accessed on Jan. 03, 2025].

Entry 19 on pp. 116

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927) p. 116 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Philip M. Forness, accessed on Jan. 03, 2025].