צפרא

Cognate with Classical Syriac ܨܦܪܐ.

• IPA^(key): /sˤaprɑʔ/

צַפְרָא • (ṣap̄ərā) m (plural צפרותא)

1. morning
   • c. 1001, Targum Onkelos, B'reishit 1:5:

     וּקְרָא יְיָ לִנְהוֹרָא יְמָמָא וְלַחֲשׁוֹכָא קְרָא לֵילְיָא וַהֲוָה רְמַשׁ וַהֲוָה צְפַר יוֹמָא חָד:

     uqərā yəyā linəhorā yəmāmā wəlaḥăšoḵā qərā lēləyā wahăwā rəmaš wahăwā ṣəp̄ar yomā ḥaḏ.

     Elohim called the light day, and the darkness He called night. It became evening and it became morning, one day.

Cognate with Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܨܸܦܪܵܐ (ṣiprā), Hebrew צִפּוֹר, Arabic عُصْفُور (ʕuṣfūr).

• IPA^(key): /sˤɛprɑʔ/

צפרא • (transliteration needed) f (plural צפרא)

1. sparrow, finch

• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), “צְפַר”, in 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