Ultimately fromPhoenician𐤄(h,“he”). CompareArabicه(h) andHebrewה(h).
ܗ• (transliteration needed)
- he, fifth letter of theSyriac alphabet
ܗ• (transliteration needed)
- numberfive (5)
- “h”, inThe Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College,1986–
- Costaz, Louis (2002),Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq,page72a
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903),A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press,page98a
- 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, page327a