ܦܠܙܐ

Classical Syriac

Etymology

From Parthian [Manichaean needed] (plync /⁠plinǰ⁠/). Compare Persian برنج (berenj), Old Armenian պղինձ (płinj), and Hebrew פְּלִיז (pəlī́z).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p(ə)lɛzzɑ]

Noun

ܦܠܙܐ • (plezzā) m(uncountable)

1. brass, bronze

Inflection

Inflection of ܦܠܙܐ

	isolated forms			with possessive pronouns
	state	form		person	singular		plural
					m	f	m	f
singular	absolute	ܦܠܙ		1st person	ܦܠܙܝ		ܦܠܙܢ
	construct	ܦܠܙ		2nd person	ܦܠܙܟ	ܦܠܙܟܝ	ܦܠܙܟܘܢ	ܦܠܙܟܝܢ
	emphatic	ܦܠܙܐ		3rd person	ܦܠܙܗ	ܦܠܙܗ	ܦܠܙܗܘܢ	ܦܠܙܗܝܢ

Descendants

(taking Classical Syriac as representative for all Aramaic)

• → Arabic: فِلَزّ (filazz)
  • → Persian: فلز (felez)

References

• “plz”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2013-05-20
• Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 572a, where apparently by mistake vocalized as if pelzā which is so cited by Sokoloff, Michael (2002) “פְּלִיזָא”, in A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 913a who appears to have corrected it in his own Syriac dictionary.
• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “plync”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, page 275
• 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 1196a,