ܐܬܢܐ

From Proto-Semitic *ʔatān-. Compare Akkadian 𒊩𒀲 (atānu /⁠eme₃⁠/), Arabic أَتَان (ʔatān), Hebrew אָתוֹן (ʾāṯôn).

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ʔăˈθɑ.nɑ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ʔaˈθɑ.nɑ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ʔɑˈθo.no]

ܐܬܢܐ • (ʾăṯānā) f (plural ܐܬܢܐ (ʾăṯānē), singular masculine counterpart ܚܡܪܐ (ḥəmārā))

1. donkey, she-ass, jenny
   • Peshitta, John 12:15:

     ܠܐ ܬܕܚܠܝܢ ܒܪܬ ܨܗܝܘܢ. ܗܐ ܡܠܟܟܝ ܐܬܐ ܠܟܝ. ܘܪܟܝܒ ܥܠ ܥܝܠܐ ܒܪ ܐܬܢܐ.

     lā ṯeḏḥəlīn, ba[r]ṯ ṣehyōn: hā malkēḵ[y] ʾāṯē lēḵ[y], wa-rəḵīḇ ʿal ʿīlā bar ʾăṯānā.

     Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

While the word is normally considered feminine, it may occasionally be masculine when specifically referring to a male.

• ܚܡܪܬܐ (ḥəmārtā)

• “ˀtn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 25 August 2011
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 22b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 33a
• 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, →ISBN, page 112b