سدة

Due to either the connection in the development of architecture or that of administration, loaning from Aramaic שִדְּתָא‏ / שִידְּתָא‏ / ܫܶܕ݁ܬܳܐ (šeddəṯā) is likely, it originally having the abstract meaning of “base”, derivative of שִׁדָּא (šiddā, “side, edge; base”), then a chest where things are laid down or deposited, then also transferred to office and status, the latter apparently a cognate of Akkadian 𒅖𒁺𒌝 (išdum, “base, foundation; administration, government”) and Arabic اِسْت (ist, “rump, bottom; foundation, beginning”). Further support is assumed Aramaic origin of Neo-Babylonian šiddatum (“chest”) and šiddum (“side”).

• IPA^(key): /sud.da/, /su.dad/

سُدَّة • (sudda) f (plural سُدَد (sudad))

1. vestibule, forecourt, gateway
2. charge, power, position, office, dignity
3. canapé, daybed, davenport

• Lishana Deni: סדיה (sədde, “pulpit”)
• Maltese: sodda (“bed”)

• “šdh²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “šd²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “سدة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 640b–641a
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “سدة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 298b
• Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19)‎^[3], Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 102
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “سدة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1329c–1330a.
• Schulthess, Friedrich (1910) “Aramäisches. II”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete‎^[4] (in German), volume 24, pages 57–58