11-07-2003, 02:59 PM
Yes I am familar with this language due to my work, but I want to get into Aramaic as well. Sadly, as I have told you on PM's, there are not enough Aramaic dicitonaries around compared to Arabic [seeing as of course Arabic is a major world language in terms of numbers] AND more importantly, because there are so mnay scripts! Unfortunately most lexicons are in Serto which is so much tougher to read than Swadaya/Estrangelo/Ktav Ashuri [I even find Arabic cursive joined up words far easier to read even though it isnt my 1st language!].
Yes I thought initially it was the 3rd person of hvh but I was just enquiring as to the suggestion by someone that it meant 'Oh He'. Yet I am still puzzled as to where the idea of 'Lord' came into this word at all [seeing as the old Tanakhs LXX and Peshitta versions both use a word meaning 'Lord'?]. Kurios Mar
By the way Paul, I found 'Mar' used in an Arabic dictionary as well to mean 'lord'. Yet in everyday usage this seems to be 'rab'. Is there a word 'rab' in Aramaic at all which means 'lord' or 'master' or something similar? Is the Hebrew 'rabbi' also related to this? <!-- s8) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/cool.gif" alt="8)" title="Cool" /><!-- s8) -->
Yes I thought initially it was the 3rd person of hvh but I was just enquiring as to the suggestion by someone that it meant 'Oh He'. Yet I am still puzzled as to where the idea of 'Lord' came into this word at all [seeing as the old Tanakhs LXX and Peshitta versions both use a word meaning 'Lord'?]. Kurios Mar
By the way Paul, I found 'Mar' used in an Arabic dictionary as well to mean 'lord'. Yet in everyday usage this seems to be 'rab'. Is there a word 'rab' in Aramaic at all which means 'lord' or 'master' or something similar? Is the Hebrew 'rabbi' also related to this? <!-- s8) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/cool.gif" alt="8)" title="Cool" /><!-- s8) -->
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