ܬܘܢܐ

From Aramaic תַּוָּנָא (tawwānā).

• (Standard) IPA^(key): [taw.wɑːnɑː]

ܬܵܘܵܢܵܐ • (tāwānā) m (plural ܬܵܘܵܢܹ̈ܐ (tāwānē))

1. room (division in a building)

   ܥܝܼܠ ܠܲܢ ܠܓܵܘ ܬܵܘܵܢܵܐ ܪܲܒܵܐ. ― ˁīl lan l-gāw tāwānā rabbā. ― We entered into a big room.

   ܟܹܐ ܥܵܡܪܹܢ ܓܵܘ ܒܲܝܬܵܐ ܒܐܲܪܒܥܵܐ ܬܵܘܵܢܹ̈ܐ ܘܓܲܢܬ݂ܵܐ. ― kē ˁāmrēn gāw baytā b-arbˁā tāwānē w-ganṯā. ― I live in a house with four rooms and a garden.

2. bedroom, chamber
3. (anatomy) cardiac ventricle

• Some dialects treat this term as grammatically feminine.

• ܐܵܘܵܢܵܐ (āwānā)

From the root ܐ-ܘ-ܐ (ʾ-w-ʾ) related to staying.

• ܬܐܘܢܐ
• ܬܘܘܢܐ

• IPA^(key): [tawwɑnɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [tawwɑne(ʔ)] (plural)

ܬܘܢܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܬܘܢܐ)

1. room, chamber
2. garner
3. (anatomy) cardiac ventricle

From the root ܬ-ܘ-ܢ (t-w-n) related to urinating, from Proto-Semitic *ṯwn.

• IPA^(key): [tunɑ(ʔ)] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [tune(ʔ)] (plural)

ܬܘܢܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܬܘܢܐ)

1. urine

• “twn”, 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. 389a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 606b, 608a
• 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, p. 1631b