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Classical Syriac

[bajtɑ(ʔ)]

noun
Definitions
  • house, home
  • temple, church
  • room, chamber, cell
  • stable
  • hive
  • vessel, receptacle, urn, case
  • verse, stanza, introit, strophe, hymn
  • (medicine) seat, base (of a humor/humour)
  • (astronomy) house, mansion, station
  • in compounds companions, followers, servants; sect
  • in compounds with a gentilic name land, country; people, nation, race, tribe, class
  • in compounds marking familial descendance family

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (house, site, location, nest).

Origin

Proto-Semitic

*bayt-

Gloss

house, site, location, nest

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