כלבא

• Syriac: ܟܠܒܐ

From Proto-Semitic *kalb-.

• IPA^(key): /kalbɑʔ/

כַּלְבָּא • (kalbā) m (plural כַּלְבַיָּא, singular feminine counterpart כלבתא)

1. dog
   • a. 1590, “חד גדיא [One Kid Goat]”, traditional cumulative song recited by Jews at the Passover Seder:

     חַד גַּדְיָא, חַד גַּדְיָא
     וְאָתָא כַלְבָּא ,וְנָשַׁךְ לְשׁוּנְרָא, דְּאָכְלָה לְגַדְיָא
     דְּזַבִּין אַבָּא בִּתְרֵי זוּזֵי
     

     ḥaḏ gaḏyā, ḥaḏ gaḏyā
     wəʔāṯā ḵalbā wənāšaḵ ləšūnrā, dəʔāḵlā ləgaḏyā
     dəzabbīn abbā biṯrē zūzē.
     

     One little goat, one little goat:
     Then dog came, and bit the cat, that ate the goat,
     Which my father bought for two zuzim.
     

• “klb”, 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
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Aramaic כַּלְבָּא (kalbā).

כלבא (kalba) m (feminine counterpart כלפתא (kalәpṯa), plural כלויה (kalwe))

1. dog

• (vulgar) כלבא בר כלבא (kalba bər kalba, “son of a bitch”)