ܠܓܬܐ

From the root ܠ-ܓ‎ (l-ɡ). Maybe a Semitic word in view of Arabic لُجّ‎ (lujj), Arabic لُجَّة‎ (lujja, “chasm, hard to reach place, gap etc.”), Aramaic לוּגָּא‎ (luggā), לֻגָּא‎ (luggā), לֹוגָּא‎ (lōḡā), לַגָּא‎ (laggā, “a small bottle; log, a liquid measure”), Ugaritic 𐎍𐎂 (lg) and Hebrew לֹג‎ (lōḡ, “a liquid measure”), Ancient Greek λεύγη (leúgē, “a measure of milk”) being a Semitic borrowing.

• IPA^(key): [laɡɡ(ə)θɑ], [lɛɡɡ(ə)θɑ]

ܠܓܬܐ • (laggǝṯā, leggǝṯā) f (plural ܠܓܐ‎ (laggē, leggē))

1. plate, dish; basin, vessel

From the earlier uncontracted form ܠܓܢܬܐ‎ (ləḡentā); Jewish Literary Aramaic לִגְנָא‎ (liḡnā), Hebrew לִגְנָה‎ (liḡnâ). Arabic لُجْنَة‎ (lujna), لِجْنَة‎ (lijna, “a measure of seedbeds”) is borrowed from this Aramaic noun.

Elsewhere occurring as a vessel, due to denoting a quantity sown onto the field: Judaeo-Aramaic לְגִינָא‎ (ləḡīnā), לְגִינְתָּא‎ (ləḡīntā, “jug for wine and oil, lagin, a unit of volume measure”), Classical Syriac ܠܓܝܢܐ‎ (ləḡīnā, “a fictile vessel”), as such borrowed into Ancient Greek λάγυνος (lágunos), λάγηνος (lágēnos, “flask”) — possibly also λεκάνη (lekánē, “basin”) —, Ge'ez ልጕን (ləgʷən), ልጐን (ləgʷän, “a unit of measure, a pot used for storing and for measuring”), Amharic ለገን (lägän, “a fictile vessel”), Akkadian [script needed] (liginnu, “a type of tablet of one column, originally the jar wherein it was stored”), Akkadian [script needed] (lignu), Akkadian [script needed] (liginnu), [script needed] (ligittu, “a measure of corn; crooked furrow”), supposedly a Sumerian loanword.

Probably unrelated to Akkadian 𒆷𒄩𒉡 (laḫannu, “flask, bottle (of clay, glass or metal)”), Hittite 𒆷𒄩𒉌 (lahan(n)i), and even Persian لاک‎ (lâk), لک‎ (lak, “trough, wooden vessel”) found also as Armenian լաք (lakʿ, “garden-bed; wooden trough; dry measure for cereals”) in spite of resembling meaning ranges.

• ܠܓܢܬܐ‎ (ləḡentā) (uncontracted form)

• IPA^(key): [l(ə)ɣɛttɑ]

ܠܓܬܐ • (ləḡettā) f (plural ܠܓܢܐ‎ (ləgenē))

1. furrow, seedbed, flowerbed, parterre
2. ridge

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