ܠܓܬܐ

Maybe a Semitic word in view of Arabic لُجّ (lujj), Arabic لُجَّة (lujja, “chasm, hard to reach place, gap etc.”), Aramaic לוּגָּא (luggā), לֻגָּא (luggā), לֹוגָּא (lōḡā), לַגָּא (laggā, “a small bottle; log, a liquid measure”), Ugaritic 𐎍𐎂 (lg) and Hebrew לֹג (lōḡ, “a liquid measure”), Ancient Greek λεύγη (leúgē, “a measure of milk”) being a Semitic borrowing.

• IPA^(key): [laɡɡ(ə)θɑ], [lɛɡɡ(ə)θɑ]

ܠܓܬܐ • (laggǝṯā, leggǝṯā) f (plural ܠܓܐ (laggē, leggē))

1. plate, dish; basin, vessel

From the earlier uncontracted form ܠܓܢܬܐ (ləḡentā); Jewish Literary Aramaic לִגְנָא (liḡnā), Hebrew לִגְנָה (liḡnâ). Arabic لُجْنَة (lujna), لِجْنَة (lijna, “a measure of seedbeds”) is borrowed from this Aramaic noun.

Elsewhere occurring as a vessel, due to denoting a quantity sown onto the field: Judaeo-Aramaic לְגִינָא (ləḡīnā), לְגִינְתָּא (ləḡīntā, “jug for wine and oil, lagin, a unit of volume measure”), Classical Syriac ܠܓܝܢܐ (ləḡīnā, “a fictile vessel”), as such borrowed into Ancient Greek λάγυνος (lágunos), λάγηνος (lágēnos, “flask”) — possibly also λεκάνη (lekánē, “basin”) —, Ge'ez ልጕን (ləgʷən), ልጐን (ləgʷän, “a unit of measure, a pot used for storing and for measuring”), Amharic ለገን (lägän, “a fictile vessel”), Akkadian [script needed] (liginnu, “a type of tablet of one column, originally the jar wherein it was stored”), Akkadian [script needed] (lignu), Akkadian [script needed] (liginnu), [script needed] (ligittu, “a measure of corn; crooked furrow”), supposedly a Sumerian loanword.

Probably unrelated to Akkadian 𒆷𒄩𒉡 (laḫannu, “flask, bottle (of clay, glass or metal)”), Hittite 𒆷𒄩𒉌 (lahan(n)i), and even Persian لاک (lâk), لک (lak, “trough, wooden vessel”) found also as Armenian լաք (lakʻ, “garden-bed; wooden trough; dry measure for cereals”) in spite of resembling meaning ranges.

• ܠܓܢܬܐ (ləḡentā) (uncontracted form)

• IPA^(key): [l(ə)ɣɛttɑ]

ܠܓܬܐ • (ləḡettā) f (plural ܠܓܢܐ (ləgenē))

1. furrow, seedbed, flowerbed, parterre
2. ridge

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