ריקא

• Syriac: ܪܝܩܐ

Compare Biblical Hebrew רֵיק (rêq, “empty”), Akkadian riāqum (“to be empty”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /rejqɑʔ/

ftr=rēqtā
f=רֵיקְתָּא
pltr=rēqē

רֵיקָא • (rēqā) m (plural)

1. empty, void
2. vain
3. worthless

ftr=rēqtā

רֵיקָא • (rēqā or transliteration needed) m (plural רֵיקֵא (rēqē), singular feminine counterpart רֵיקְתָּא)

1. a vain or worthless person

Occurs in rabbinic writings as a term of personal abuse, and differs little from "fool".^[1]

• → Ancient Greek: ῥακά (rhaká), ῥαχά (rhakhá) — in one manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew, ῥαχᾶς (rhakhâs) — in one 3rd century BC papyrus
  • → Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰 (raka)
  • → Latin: raca
  • → Old Armenian: ռակայ (ṙakay), ռակկայ (ṙakkay), ռակա (ṙaka)
  • → Old Georgian: რაკა (raḳa)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: рака (raka)
    • → Old East Slavic: рака (raka)
• → Old Armenian: երախայ (eraxay)

• “ryq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1476
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press