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Ancient Mideast language
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syriac
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Syriac is a Unicode block containing characters for all forms of the Syriac script , including the Estrangela , Serto , Eastern Syriac , and the Christian Palestinian Aramaic variants. It is used in Literary Syriac, Neo-Aramaic, and Arabic among Syriac-speaking ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Syriac \Syr"i*ac\, a. [L. Syriacus, from Syria: cf. F. syriaque.] Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch. -- n. The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin syraicus , from Greek syraikos "Syrian, of or pertaining to Syria," (see Syria ). As the name of an ancient Semitic language, from 1610s.
Usage examples of syriac.
One of the Semitic languages, it is related to Aramaic, Phoenician, Syriac, Hebrew, various Ethiopic languages, and the Akkadian of ancient Babylonia and Assyria.
Somebody found fault with writing verses in a dead language, maintaining that they were merely arrangements of so many words, and laughed at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, for sending forth collections of them not only in Greek and Latin, but even in Syriac, Arabick, and other more unknown tongues.
She was making for the charity hospital of Syriac Well, through four or more miles of intricately twisting slum and collapsing architecture.
In their Syriac liturgy the names of Theodore and Nestorius were piously commemorated: they united their adoration of the two persons of Christ.
In their Syriac liturgy the names of Theodore and Nestorius were piously commemorated: they united their adoration of the two persons of Christ.
For there are three Greek Mss., one Latin, and one Syriac, which agree with one another, and in all of these Methuselah is said to have died six years before the deluge.
In addition to these Miss Tuffin, who is the daughter of the late Reverend Thomas Tuffin (Fellow of Corpus College, Cambridge,) can instruct in the Syriac language, and the elements of Constitutional law.