ܒ-

See also: ܒ

Classical Syriac

Etymology

Compare Arabic بِ- (bi-) and Hebrew בְּ־ (bə-).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [b(ə)-] (followed by a consonant and vowel)
  • IPA(key): [ba-] (followed by a two-consonant cluster)

Preposition

ܒ- (transliteration needed)

  1. various senses: in, on, upon, at, among, to, into, by, according to, for, because, about, as, against, during
  2. (instrumentally) with
  3. (with an adjective, forming a superlative) -est, most
  4. (with a substantive, forming an adverb) -ly

Inflection

Takes type-I suffixes.

See also

References

  • Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français : Syriac–English Dictionary, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 23a
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 33b-34a
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana; Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, p. 114a
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