ריס

A Middle Iranian borrowing within the relatives of Old Armenian երէզ (erēz, “band, bandage”), with the sports meaning in Old Armenian ասպարէզ (asparēz, “racecourse, stadium; stadion”), Jewish Literary Aramaic בֵית רֵיסָא‎ (bēṯ rēsā, “racecourse, stadium”), deformed Classical Syriac ܒܝܬ ܪܗܛܐ‎ (bēṯ rehṭā, “racecourse, stadium”). The development of the meaning of an eyelash may be recognized further in Arabic رِمْش‎ (rimš, “eyelash”), and typologically Old Armenian կոպ (kop, “eyelid”) compares against Georgian კოპი (ḳoṗi, “leather-thong; satin-embroidered headband on which the veil of a woman is attached”).

רִיס • (ris) m (plural indefinite רִיסִים‎, singular construct רִיס־, plural construct רִיסֵי־‎) (from Mishnaic Hebrew)

1. eyelash
2. (obsolete) eyelid (then particularly together with eyelashes)
3. (obsolete) stadium, racecourse
4. (obsolete) the measure called stadion

• → Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Jewish Literary Aramaic: רֽיסָא‎ (rīsā), רֵיסָא‎ (rēsā)

• ריס‎ on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1475
• “rys²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, the eyelid borrowing according to CAL from Hebrew in Aramaic
• “byt**rys”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, racetrack in JLA
• “byt**rhṭˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, racetrack in Syriac

From Middle High German riss, from Old High German riz, from Proto-Germanic *writiz.

ריס • (ris) m

1. rip, tear