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Lexeme
Glosses

Lexeme	ܙܡܝܬܐ
Seyame	No
Bracket	Normal

Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Ciancaglini	English	hoar-frost
Brock & Kiraz	English	hoar-frost.
Costaz AFSS	Arabic	صقيع
Costaz AFSS	Arabic	ثلج
Costaz AFSS	French	gelée blanche
Costaz AFSS	French	neige

Audo
Brock & Kiraz
Brockelmann
Ciancaglini
Costaz AFSS
Margoliouth

Entry 4 on pp. 279 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. 279 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by George A. Kiraz, accessed on Apr. 20, 2025].

ܙܡܝܬܐ

ܙܡܳܝܬܳܐ hoar-frost.

Sebastian P. Brock & George A. Kiraz, Gorgias Concise Syriac-English, English-Syriac Dictionary (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015) ܙܡܝܬܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Apr. 20, 2025].

ܙܡܝܬܐ

ܙܡܳܝܬܳܐ zmytʾ zmāytā hoar-frost

This Syr. loanword is morphologically adapted through a Syriac suffix, and was probably borrowed from MP zam [zm] winter (CPD 97); cf. Av. ziiam- zəm- (AirWb 1699 f.; Nyberg 57, s.v. damistān); in MP two dialectal variants are attested, damestān and zamestān winter; cf. ManMP dmystʾn /damestān/ winter (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 138; CPD 98); ManParth. zmg /zamag/ winter (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 382; Henning 1937a, 90); NP zam cold; biting wind (Steingass 620; Horn 147) ● am 3, 366, 16; Kays 237, 6; Bh ad Job 38, 29; BA 3521; BB 692, 4 ◆ LS 199b; Müller 1894, 364; PS Suppl. 112

Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008) ܙܡܝܬܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Apr. 20, 2025].

ܙܡܝܬܐ

	neige	snow	ثلج
	gelée blanche	hoar-frost	صقيع

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) ܙܡܝܬܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Apr. 20, 2025].

Brockelmann

Entry 90 on pp. 199

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 199 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Apr. 20, 2025].

Margoliouth
Margoliouth Supplement

Entry 16 on pp. 117

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1903) p. 117 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Aron M. Tillema, accessed on Apr. 20, 2025].

Entry 3 on pp. 112

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927) p. 112 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Philip M. Forness, accessed on Apr. 20, 2025].