syame

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noun

A 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.

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Meanings

noun

alternative seyame

  1. A 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.

Origin

  1. Classical Syriacܣܝܡܐ
  2. Englishsyame

From Classical Syriac ܣܝܡܐ.

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