ܥܠܬܐ

From the root ܥ-ܠ-ܠ‎ (ʿ-l-l). The sense of "disease" is a calque of Arabic عِلَّة‎ (ʕilla). Compare also Hebrew עִלָּה‎ (ʿillâ).

• IPA^(key): [ʕɛll(ə)θɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ʕɛl(lə)le], [ʕɛl(lə)lɑθɑ(ʔ)] (plural)

ܥܠܬܐ • (transliteration needed) f (plural ܥܠܠܬܐ‎ or ܥܠܬܐ or ܥܠܠܐ‎)

1. cause, reason, motive, pretext, pretense
2. occasion, opportunity
3. necessity
4. means
5. sin, crime, fault
6. proof, evidence, accusation, argument, complaint
7. subject, topic (e.g. of a book)
8. introduction, heading
9. thing, object, article, affair
10. (in the plural) receptacles
11. (grammar) root (noun of a derived adjective)
12. (pathology) sickness, illness, disease

From the root ܥ-ܠ-ܐ‎ (ʿ-l-ʾ) related to raising up. Compare Hebrew עוֹלָה‎ (ʿôlâ).

• IPA^(key): [ʕ(ə)lɑθɑ]

ܥܠܬܐ • (transliteration needed) f (plural ܥܠܘܬܐ‎)

1. offering, sacrifice, holocaust, oblation
2. high place, altar

• “ˁlh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 252a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 416a
• 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, pp. 1106b-1107a