Syriac

[seer-ee-ak]

noun

a form of Aramaic used by various Eastern Churches.

Origin of Syriac

< Latin Syriacus < Greek Syriakós. See Syria, -ac

Related formspre-Syr·i·ac, adjective, noun

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Examples from the Web for syriac

Contemporary Examples of syriac

Not so: there are Christians there too, like the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch.
Why Won’t the West Defend Middle Eastern Christians?
Diarmaid MacCulloch
October 27, 2013

Historical Examples of syriac

He next proceeded to learn the Chaldee, Syriac, and Samaritan dialects.
Self-Help
Samuel Smiles
Also, what Syriac Lexicon stands highest for value and accuracy?
Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851
Various
The root in Syriac means "to be sad," but Kimchi derives it from a root "to be black."
The Expositor's Bible
F. W. Farrar
That of the Koran, based on the Cufic forms of the Syriac 2.
The Natural History of the Varieties of Man
Robert Gordon Latham
In Syriac the word ‘Eben’ signifies equally a child and a stone.
Tradition
John Francis Arundell

British Dictionary definitions for syriac

Syriac

noun

a dialect of Aramaic spoken in Syria until about the 13th century ad and still in use as a liturgical language of certain Eastern churches

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