English words from Classical Syriac
- marTo spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
- maniA peninsula on the Peloponnese in Greece.
- PeshittaA Syriac translation of the Bible.
- AbgarThe name of a number of kings of Osroene.
- Church of the EastThe church originally made up of the Christians of the Sasanid Empire, later exonymically known as the Nestorian church and characterised by its use of the East Syriac liturgical rite.
- maphriancatholicos, high-ranking bishop
- QamishliA city in al-Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria, on the border with Turkey.
- QurbanaThe Eucharistic service in Syrian Christianity.
- syameA diacritical mark used in Aramaic, written as two horizontal dots above a letter, indicating that a noun or adjective is plural, or occasionally that a word ends in /e/ or /ε/. If written above resh in the Syriac script, it replaces the single dot that differentiates it from daleth.
- syrpAn abbreviation for an early Syriac translation of the Bible also known as Peshitta.
- ZakhoA city in Iraq, a few kilometers from the Turkish border.