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 Bed is Syriac is maḍmho (ܡܰܕܡܟܳܐ). Back to the Aramaic vocabulary alphabetical list.

Ezra 4:8 This is the first verse from the book Ezra of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. KJV –Rehnum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:  רְח֣וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵ֗ם וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ סָֽפְרָ֔א כְּתַ֛בוּ אִגְּרָ֥ה חֲדָ֖ה עַל־יְרוּשְׁלֶ֑ם לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥שְׂתְּא מַלְכָּ֖א כְּנֵֽמָא׃ rǝḥûm bǝʿēl-ṭǝʿēm wǝšimšay sāpǝrāʾ kǝtabû ʾiggǝrâ ḥădâ ʿal-yǝrûšǝlem lǝʾartaḥšaśtǝʾ melekh kǝnēmāʾ Vocabulary רְח֣וּם- rǝḥûm- Rehum (name) בְּעֵל -bǝʿēl -lord טְעֵ֗ם - ṭǝʿēm - chancellor וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ - wǝšimšay -and Shimsai (sunny), satrap of Judaea וְ - wǝ - and סָֽפְרָ֔א - sāpǝrāʾ - scribe כְּתַ֛בוּ - kǝtabû - wrote אִגְּרָ֥ה - ʾiggǝrâ - letter חֲדָ֖ה עַ - ḥădâ - a, one עַל - ʿal - against יְרוּשְׁלֶ֑ם - yǝrûšǝlem - Jerusalem (teaching of peace) לְ - lǝ - to אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥שְׂתְּא - ʾartaḥšaśtǝʾ - Artaxerxes מַלְכָּ֖א - melekh - the king כְּנֵֽמָא - kǝnēmāʾ - sort, of this sort

  ܥܹܐܕ݂ܵܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ ܒܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ! ܥܹܐܕ݂ܵܐ ܕܡܵܘܠܵܕܹܗ ܕܡܵܪܲܢ ܝܑܼܫܘܿܥ ܡܫܝܼܚܵܐ ܗܵܘܹܐ ܒܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ ܥܲܠ ܟܘܼܠܵܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ.  Classical Syriac ܒܪܝܟ ܡܘܠܕܐ ܕܡܪܢ Brikh mawlada de'maran. Merry Christmas. Brikh - happy - ܒܪܝܟ Mawlada - birth - ܡܘܠܕܐ De - of -ܕ Maran - our Lord - ܡܪܢ

  Evening is noospa in Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.  Chaldean is considered a sister language of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. Linguistically these two are dialects of the same language but often they are classified as different languages due to political reasons. Chaldeans ,the Kaldāye ( ܟܲܠܕܵܝܹܐ ) as their are known in the Chaldean language are Assyrian Catholics adherent to Chaldean Catholic Church. Chaldean Catholics from Marcin,Turkey,19nth century. Read also A Chaldean American success story.

Some Aramaic greetings. Peace be upon you. I love the Aramaic language . What's your name in Aramaic . Sinner in Aramaic . God willing in Aramaic. God why have you forsaken me? More Aramaic phrases.

B'LTRZ בעלתרז Baaltars (combination of Baal and Tarsus) was the guardian god of the city of Tarsus in the Persian Empire. Baal originally ment lord or owner in Northwest Semitic languages but it came to mean god. In the left of the coin there are the Aramaic letters TN and an M under the throne. The coin's backside reads MZDI in Aramaic which is Mazday or Mazaios the Persian satrap of Cilicia. AR Stater, 361/360-334 BC, Tarsus,Cilicia. The lion attacking the bull was a common imagery at Persepolis-the religious capital of the Persian Empire. Combat between lion and bull (Persepolis).

Is Aramaic Amharic or Armenian? Of course not. They are all separate languages. There is quite a lot of people out there that mistake Amharic or Armenian for Aramaic just because their name has three same letters 'Arm' and it sounds more or less the similar to them. Semitic languages. Aramaic and Amharic Aramaic and Amharic are distant relatives both belonging to the Semitic language family. They belong to different branches of the family.  Semitic languages were/are Hebrew, Phoenician,Arabic,Tigrinya and Maltese. Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language first spoken in Upper Mesopotamia while Amharic is a south Semitic language which first appeared in the area of modern day Ethiopia. Amharic is called  አማርኛ   Amarenna, sounding like Aramaic. Aramaic originated in what is nowadays northern Iraq, Northwestern Syria and Southeastern Turkey. It became a major language and spread all over the so-called Fertile Crescent and the native one for many peoples like the Jews besides ...