ܡܕܢܐ

Uncertain. Possibilities include:

• From Akkadian 𒉘𒈨𒌍 (/maddattu, middattu/, “measure of capacity, container”).
• From ܕܢܐ‎ (dannāʾ, “jar, urn”), from Akkadian 𒂁𒆗𒉡 (/dannu/, “storage vat mostly for storing beer and wine”).

• IPA^(key): [maddɑnɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [maddɑne] (plural)

ܡܕܢܐ • (maddānā) m (plural ܡܕܢܐ (maddānē))

1. wine cellar, storeroom
2. (agriculture) granary

• ܒܝܬ ܡܕܢܐ‎ (bēṯ maddānā)

• → Old Armenian: մառան (maṙan)
  • Armenian: մառան (maṙan), մարան (maran)
    • → Northern Kurdish: maran
    • → Udi: маран (maran)
  • → Georgian: მარანი (marani)

• “mdn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2013-04-28
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français : Syriac–English Dictionary : قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 178a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 253b
• 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, page 716a