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ṣwrbˀ (ṣurbā) n.m. a plant name; student
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(bot.) a plant name
Syr
Med 319:12 text not cited
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מרבנן : young student
JBA
BT Ber 15a(9)↗ האי צורבא מרבנן דאתא ממערבא‏ : this student who has come from the west ; BT Meg 27a(41)↗ האי צורבא מרבנן דשמיע ליה מילתא ולא ידע פירושה‏ : a student who has heard an interpretation but does not know its explanation
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See Akkadian ṣurbu "seseli"? (but simply a hapax from Aramaic?), Flora 3:471.
JBA: A member of an intermediate scholarly class between the common people and the scholars (DJBA)).
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 1281[637]DJBA: 956bJastrow: 1271J. Payne-Smith: 476BarBahlul: 1661:2

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