syame

English

Alternative forms

  • seyame

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܣܝܡܐ.

Noun

syame

  1. A diacritical mark used in Aramaic, written as two horizontal dots above a letter, indicating that a noun or adjective is plural, or occasionally that a word ends in /e/ or /ε/. If written above resh in the Syriac script, it replaces the single dot that differentiates it from daleth.

Usage notes

The word is plural in Aramaic. In English, some writers construe it as plural, others as singular.

Anagrams

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