ܦܠܚܐ

From the root ܦ-ܠ-ܚ‎ (p-l-ḥ) related to working.

• IPA^(key): [pɑlħɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [pɑlħe(ʔ)], [pɑlaħwɑθɑ(ʔ)] (plural)

ܦܠܚܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܠܚܘܬܐ‎ or ܦܠܚܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܦܠܚܬܐ‎)

1. servant, attendant, agent, minister
2. artisan
3. (military) soldier
4. worker, peasant
5. vintner
6. worshipper

Chess pieces in Classical Syriac · (layout · text)
ܡܠܟܐ‎	ܬܘܪܬܢܐ‎	ܡܓܕܠܐ‎	ܦܝܠܐ‎	ܣܘܣܝܐ‎	ܦܠܚܐ

Usually, the plural ܦܠܚܐ‎ (pālḥē(ʾ)) is a paucal plural (from two to ten) while the plural ܦܠܚܘܬܐ‎ (pālaḥwāṯā(ʾ)) is a multiple plural (eleven or more).

• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: pale

  → Central Kurdish: پاڵە‎ (palle)

From the root ܦ-ܠ-ܚ‎ (p-l-ḥ) related to working. Compare Aramaic פלחא‎.

• IPA^(key): [pallɑħɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [pallɑħe(ʔ)] (plural)

ܦܠܚܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܦܠܚܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܦܠܚܬܐ‎)

1. worker

   Synonym: ܦܥܠܐ‎

2. tiller, cultivator, farmer, agriculturalist

   Synonym: ܐܟܪܐ‎

3. vintner, vinedresser

   Synonyms: ܟܪܡܐ‎, ܚܡܪܐ‎

4. worshipper

• → Arabic: فَلَّاح‎ (fallāḥ)
  • → English: fellah
  • → French: fellah
  • → German: Fellache
  • Kurdish

    → Northern Kurdish: file, fele, fileh, fillah, fille

    → Central Kurdish: فەلە‎ (fele)

  • → Russian: фелла́х (felláx)
  • → Swahili: falahi
  • → Ottoman Turkish: فلاح‎
    • Turkish: felah, fellah
    • → Aromanian: fileah
    • → Bulgarian: фела́х (feláh)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      • Cyrillic: фѐла̄х
      • Latin: fèlāh

• “plḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 277a, b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 448a
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana; Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, pp. 1197b-1198a