Word Meanings - SYRIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac. -- n.

Related words: (words related to SYRIAN)

• SYRIACISM
  A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SYRIANISM
  A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism. Paley.
• SYRIASM
  A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism; a Syriacism. M. Stuart. The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms. Bp. Warburton.
• SYRIAN
  Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac. -- n.
• SYRIAC
  Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch. -- n.
• ASSYRIAN
  Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach