English words from Classical Syriac
- marTo spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
- PeshittaA Syriac translation of the Bible.
- Church of the EastThe church originally made up of the Christians of the Sasanid Empire, later exonymically known as the Nestorian church and characterised by its use of the East Syriac liturgical rite.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
- 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.