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qyṭ, qyṭˀ (qēṭ, qayṭā) n.m. summer
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summer
Common Aramaic
DurEurParch 14↗ ٠٠٠]וזרענ̊ה̊ ז̊רע̊ה[ ד]קיט[א‏ : and sow it with its summer seed ; TgO Gen8:22↗ קוּרָא וְחוֹמָא וְקֵיטָא וְסִתוָא‏ : cold and heat and summer and winter ; PTBer 4.c:9[2]↗ לא בקייט ולא בסיתוא‏ ; CPA Num13:20↗ ܘܝܘܡ̈ܝܐ ܗܘܘ ܝܘ̈ܡܝ ܩܐܝܛܐ ܕܒܟܘܪ̈ܝܬܐ ܕܥܢ̈ܒܝܐ‏ : and the days were the summer days of the earliest grapes ; P Mt24:32↗ ܕ݁ܲܡܛܵܐ ܩܲܝܛܵܐ‏ ; ChronEdess 3:2↗ ܘܒܩܝܛܐ ܢܚܬ ܗܘܐ ܠܗ ܠܐܦܕܢܐ ܚܕܬܐ ܕܐܬܒܢܝ ܗܘܐ ܠܗ ܥܠ ܪܝܫ ܡܒܘܥܐ‏ : in summer he would go down to the new palace that he had built at the source of the spring ; BT Šab 119a(46)↗ רב ששת בקייטא מותיב להו לרבנן ^היכ׳ דמטיא שמשא‏ : PN used to place the students in the summer where the sun reached ; TgQoh4:5↗ שטיא אזיל ומגפף ית ידוי בקייטא ולא צבי למטרח‏
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בי קיטא : summer house (i.e., for a synagogue)
JBA
BT BB 3b(24)↗ מרימר ומר זוטרא בנו ^בי^ {{ב}}סיתוא בקיטא ^ובי^ {{וב}}קיטא בסיתו‏ : PN1 and PN2 built a winter synagogue in the summer and a summer synagogue in the winter
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animal birthed in summer (?) : see s.v. qyṭy adj.
JBA
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OA (note dissimilation of emphatics!) כיצ ; Mand. gaiṭa, gaiid
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For the fruit see also s.v. qyṭ "gatherer of figs".
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 1361[664]DJPA: 490aDJBA: 1012aJastrow: 1357Drower/Macuch: 76a, 89bJ. Payne-Smith: 503Levy Ch-W: 2:357Tal Sam: 775DNWSI: 1021DCPA[Schulthess]: 370[179]

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