ܝܡܐ

From Aramaic אִמָּא‎ (ʾimmā), from Proto-Semitic *ʔimm-; compare Arabic أُمّ‎ (ʔumm), Hebrew אֵם‎ (em) and אִמָּא‎ (ímma).

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɪm.mä]
• (Urmian) IPA^(key): [ˈjɪ.mɒ]

ܝܸܡܵܐ • (yimmā) f (plural ܝܸܡܵܬܹ̈ܐ‎ (yimmātē) or ܝܸܡܵܘܵܬ݂ܵܐ‎ (yimmāwāṯā), masculine ܒܵܒܵܐ‎ (bābā) or ܐܲܒ݂ܵܐ‎ (aḇā))

1. mother (female parent who gets pregnant and gives birth to a child)
2. (Tergawar) colostrum, first milk
3. malignant tumor

• ܝܸܡܵܝܵܐ‎ (yimmāyā, “motherly, maternal”)
• ܝܸܡܘܼܬܵܐ‎ (yimutā, “motherhood, maternity”)

Compare Ugaritic 𐎊𐎎 (ym), Hebrew יָם‎ (yam).

• IPA^(key): [ˈjä.mä]
• (Urmian) IPA^(key): [ˈjɒ.mɒ]

ܝܲܡܵܐ or ܝܵܡܵܐ • (yammā or yāmā) m or f (plural ܝܵܡܵܬܹ̈ܐ‎ (yāmātē))

1. sea, lake, large body of water

   ‏ܝܵܡܵܐ ܓܘܿܪܬܵܐ‎ ― yāmā gortā ― the Mediterranean (literally, “great sea”)

2. beach (pebbly or sandy shore, especially by the sea between high- and low-water marks)

This word is normally masculine in the Alqosh/Nineveh Plains dialect(s) and feminine in others.

• ܝܵܡܬܵܐ‎ (yāmtā, “lake”)

• “ܝܸܡܵܐ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, accessed 2022-11-27
• “ܝܲܡܵܐ”, in Sureth Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France, accessed 2022-11-27
• Maclean, Arthur John (1901), “ܝܸܡܵܐ”, in Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac as Spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, North-West Persia and the Plain of Mosul, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 120b
• Maclean, Arthur John (1901), “ܝܵܡܵܐ”, in Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac as Spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, North-West Persia and the Plain of Mosul, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 120b

A Northwest Semitic innovation. Compare Ugaritic 𐎊𐎎 (ym), Hebrew יָם‎ (yām) and Arabic يَمّ‎ (yamm).

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ˈjam.mɑ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈjam.mɑ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈjɑ.mo]

ܝܡܐ • (yammā) m (plural ܝܡܡܐ‎ (yam[mə]mē))

1. sea, large lake
2. pond, swamp, marsh

• (sea): ܒܚܪܐ‎ (baḥrā)

• (sea): ܝܒܫܐ‎ (yaḇšā, “dry land”)

• ܝܕ ܝܡܐ‎ (yaḏ yammā, “coast”)
• ܝܡܡ‎ (yammem, “to make into a sea”)
• ܝܡܡܝܐ‎ (yam[mə]māyā, “marine”)
• ܝܡܬܐ‎ (yamməṯā, “lake”)
  • ܝܡܬܘܢܝܬܐ‎ (yamməṯōnīṯā, “lakelet”)

• “ym”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-10-02
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 141b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 193a
• 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, page 575b
• Kogan, Leonid (2011), “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 191

• ܡܝܐ‎