תמניא

From Proto-Semitic *ṯamāniy-.

תְּמָנְיָא • (təmānəyā) m (feminine תְּמָנֵי (təmānē))

1. eight (8)
   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Shabbat, 21b:

     יוֹמֵי דַחֲנוּכָּה תְּמָנְיָא אִינּוּן דְּלָא לְמִסְפַּד בְּהוֹן וּדְלָא לְהִתְעַנּוֹת בְּהוֹן

     Yomēy dha-Ḥǎnukå təmånyå innun də-lå lə-mispad bəhon u-dhə-lå ləhithəʿannoth bəhon.

     The days of Chanukah are eight; one may not eulogize on them and one may not fast on them.

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܡܵܢܝܵܐ (tmānyā)

• “tmny”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), “תַּמְנֵי”, 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

From Aramaic תְּמָנְיָא (təmānəyā).

תמניא (tmanya)

1. eight