אסא

• ܐܣܐ — Syriac

• IPA^(key): /ʔɑsɑ/

אָסָא • (ʾāsā)

1. (biblical) Asa
3. a male given name

Back-formation from אָסֵי (ʾāsē), אָסְיָא (ʾāsyā, “physician, healer”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔăsɑ/

אֲסָא • (ʾăsā)

2. to heal, to cure
4. to restore, to repair

• אֲסִי (ʾăsī)

From Akkadian 𒄑𒊍 (asum, “myrtle”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔɑsɑ/

אָסָא • (ʾāsā)

2. myrtle

   Synonym: הֲדַסַא (hăḏasā)

• → Arabic: آس (ʔās)
  • ⇒ Cypriot Arabic: ximplás
  • → Ge'ez: እልኣስ (ʾəlʾas, “myrtle”)
  • → Middle Armenian: հապալաս (hapalas) (from حَبَّ ٱلْآس (ḥabba l-ʔās))
    • → Armenian: հապալաս (hapalas) (learned)

• “ˀsy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “ˀs”, 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^[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Löw, Immanuel (1924), Die Flora der Juden‎^[2] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 257-274
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press

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אָסָא • (ása) m

1. (biblical) Asa (the third king of Judah mentioned in the Books of Kings who succeeded his father Abijah; the father of King Jehoshaphat)
2. a male given name, Asa or Assa
3. a surname

• אָסִי (así)

• H609 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• אסא on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he