עליתא
Aramaic
Pronunciation 1
- IPA(key): /ʕɛlitɑʔ/
Noun
עליתא • (transliteration needed) f (plural עליתא)
- An upper story, chamber, or room.
- rising, elevation, promotion
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): /ʕɛlɑjtɑʔ/
Adjective
עליתא • (transliteration needed) f (plural עליתא, masculine עליא)
- upper
- supreme, highest
References
- “ˁlyh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press