ריקא

• Syriac: ܪܝܩܐ‎

• IPA^(key): /rejqɑʔ/

רֵיקָא • (rēqā) m (plural רֵיקֵא)

1. empty, void
2. vain
3. worthless

רֵיקָא or רֵיקָא • (rēqā or transliteration needed) m (plural רֵיקֵא (rēqē), singular feminine counterpart רֵיקְתָּא‎)

1. a vain or worthless person

Occurs in rabbinic writings as a term of personal abuse, and differs little from "fool".[1]

• → Ancient Greek: ῥακά (rhaká), ῥαχά (rhakhá)
  • → Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰 (raka)
  • → Latin: raca
  • → Old Armenian: ռակայ (ṙakay), ռակկայ (ṙakkay), ռակա (ṙaka)
  • → Old Georgian: რაკა (raḳa)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: рака (raka)
    • → Old East Slavic: рака (raka)
• → Old Armenian: երախայ (eraxay) (probably)

• “ryq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1476
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press