Aramaic vocabulary

Animals in Aramaic

Wild animals אנא חזי ית אריא Ana khaze yat ariya. I see a lion. (male speaking) אנא חזיא ית אריא Ana khaziya yat ariya. I see a lion. (When female talking) אנא Ana I חזי Khaze  to see ית Yat Shows that the following noun is in th…

In the house- Syriac vocabulary builder.

'In the house' in Syriac Aramaic is b-vayto .The 'b' part means in. In the picture the letters are written in the Serto script . house -vayta or vayto -  ܒܲܝܬܵ

The word for King in Biblical Aramaic.

Today΄s word in Biblical Aramaic is melek which means King. King seems to be a favourite word for many Aramaic lessons that I have come across. Here is how to write King (mlk) in the Hebrew alphabet omitting the vowels. …

Man and woman in Aramaic

The word for 'woman' in Aramaic is attha  while the word for 'man' is gabraa .Here is how it is written in the Syriac Estrangelo script. attha gabraa  And a couple of examples with the words attha and gabra…

alphabetical Aramaic vocabulary list

In this post I am compiling a short vocabulary list in Aramaic (Classical Syriac) ,kind of like a dictionary. I will be updating the list,so come back later. Here are the first words in alphabetical order.The English translation…

Son of God in Aramaic

In Biblical Aramaic Son of God (ܐܠܗܐ) was bar  'elaha (ܒܪ ܐܠܗܐ) .The genitive case did not exist and it was formed simply by putting two nouns one after the other.In Syriac Son of God would be bar d alaha . bar el…

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