ܥܒܕܐ

From the root ܥ-ܒ-ܕ‎ (ʿ-b-d) related to working, from Proto-Semitic *ʿabd-; compare Arabic عَبْد‎ (ʿabd), Hebrew עֶבֶד‎ (ʿéḇeḏ).

• IPA^(key): [ˈʕav.dɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ˈʕav.de] (plural)

ܥܒܕܐ • (ʿaḇdā) m (plural ܥܒܕܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܐܡܬܐ‎)

1. servant, slave, bondsman

From the root ܥ-ܒ-ܕ‎ (ʿ-b-d) related to working, from Proto-Semitic *ʿabd-. Compare Arabic عِبَاد‎ (ʿibād) and Hebrew עִבּוּד‎ (ʿibbûḏ).

• IPA^(key): [ʕ(ə.)ˈvɑ.ðɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ʕ(ə.)ˈvɑ.ðe] (plural)

ܥܒܕܐ • (ʿəḇāḏā) m (plural ܥܒܕܐ)

1. labour/labor, work, toil, exertion
2. making, forming, building, creating
3. construction, creation
4. deed, action, operation, production
5. preparation
6. employment, occupation, business
7. substance, thing, affair
8. creature
9. wealth, estate, possessions, goods
10. baggage, cargo
11. (grammar) predicate; active voice
12. administration
13. office, function
14. province
15. reality

• “ˁbd”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-12-03
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français : Syriac–English Dictionary, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 241b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 397a-b
• 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. 1060a-b