ܣܣܐ

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *sūs- (“moth; insect especially one that bites or chews up materials”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *suʔw- (“a kind of insect”); cognates with Akkadian 𒌨𒈨 (sāsum, “moth”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic סָסָא‎ (sāsā), Hebrew סָס‎ (sās), Arabic سَاس‎ (sās), سُوس‎ (sūs), سُوسَة‎ (sūsa), Amharic ፃፄ (ṣ́aṣ́e). Compare Old Armenian ցեց (cʿecʿ), Middle Persian sʾs (sās, “bug”), Persian ساس‎ (sâs), and Ancient Greek σής (sḗs), Semitic loanwords.

• ܫܘܫܐ‎ (šūšā)
• ܫܫܐ‎ (šāšā)

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ˈsɑ.sɑ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈsɑ.sɑ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈso.so]

ܣܣܐ • (sāsā) c (plural ܣܣܐ (sāsē))

1. moth
   • Peshitta, Matthew 6:19:

     ‏ܠܐ ܬܣܝܡܘܢ ܠܟܘܢ ܣܝܡܬܐ ܒܐܪܥܐ: ܐܬܪ ܕܣܣܐ ܘܐܟܠܐ ܡܚܒܠܝܢ‎

     lā ṯəsīmūn ləḵōn sīmāṯā ḇə-ʾarʿā, ʾăṯar də-sāsā wə-ʾāḵlā məḥabbəlīn

     Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt

2. maggot, grub, larva
3. worm
4. decay, rottenness

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛs.sɑ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪs.sɑ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈse.so]

ܣܣܐ • (sessā) m (plural ܣܣܐ (sessē))

1. inch (unit of length)
2. (pathology) kind of sore: wart; blister, vesicle

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ˈsas.sɑ], [ˈsɛs.sɑ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈsas.sɑ], [ˈsɪs.sɑ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈsɑ.so], [ˈse.so]

ܣܣܐ • (sassā, sessā) m (plural ܣܣܐ (sassē, sessē))

1. (architecture) vault
2. (astronomy) stars of the Milky Way

From Ancient Greek σῶσσος (sôssos), from Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (šuši /šūš/, “a unit of sixty”).

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ˈsas.sɑ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈsas.sɑ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈsɑ.so]

ܣܣܐ • (sassā) m (plural ܣܣܐ (sassē) or ܣܘܣܘ‎ (sōsō))

1. sossos, period of 60 years

• ܢܝܪܘ‎ (/nyrw/)
• ܣܐܪܘܣ‎ (/sʾrws/)

• “ss”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-12-01
• “ss²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2020-04-10
• “swsw”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2020-04-10
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 225a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 383b, 626b
• Payne Margoliouth, Jessie (1927) Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, S.T.P., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 236b-237a
• 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, pages 985b, 1025b