ܡܘܬܐ

From Aramaic מַוְתָא‎ (mawṯā), from Proto-Semitic *mawut-; cognate with Arabic مَوْت‎ (mawt), Hebrew מָוֶת‎ (mávet), Akkadian 𒍗 (mūtu, [ÚŠ]), and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎚 (mt).

• (standard) IPA^(key): [mawtaː]
• (Nineveh Plains) IPA^(key): [moːθa]

ܡܵܘܬܵܐ • (māwtā) m (plural ܡܵܘܬܹ̈ܐ (māwtē))

1. death (the cessation of life and all associated processes)

   ‏ܡܘܼܚܸܒܵܟ݂ܝ ܠܹܗ ܡ̣ܢ ܚܲܝܹ̈ܐ ܗܲܠ ܡܵܘܬܵܐ.‎‎

   He loved you from life until death.

2. way of dying, cause of death

• ܚܲܝܹ̈ܐ‎ (ḥayē)
• ܚܲܝܘܼܬܵܐ‎ (ḥayutā)

From the root ܡ-ܘ-ܬ‎ (m-w-t) related to dying, from Proto-Semitic *mawut-. Cognate with Akkadian 𒍗 (mūtu, [ÚŠ]), Arabic مَوْت‎ (mawt), Hebrew מָוֶת‎ (māweṯ), and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎚 (mt).

• IPA^(key): [mawtɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [mawte(ʔ)] (plural)

ܡܘܬܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܡܘܬܐ)

1. death
2. way of dying, cause of death
3. execution
4. (pathology) plague, pestilence

• “mwt”, 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. 179b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 260b
• 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, p. 731b