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zwṭr vb. to make small
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Qquadriliteralto make small1 sense▶
to make small
Syr, JBA, Man
BT Ber 39a(31)var.↗ האי דמזוטרי להו טפי‏ : the reason that they make them much smaller ; GY 280:13↗ kḏ baiia mata qumtẖ ukḏ baiia mzauṭir napšẖ : wanting to stretch his body and wanting to make himself small
QtquadTto be(come) small1 sense▶
to be(come) small
JBA
BT Ned 50b(24)↗ עד דמיזדוטר׳‏ : until (the egg) becomes small ; BT San 95a(14)var↗ כד חזיה איזוטר בעיניה‏ : when he saw (Jerusalem), it seemed small in his eyes
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Audo provides a full complement of deverbal nouns and adjectives, although these seem not yet known to western scholars. Note that Audo (following RPSm) assumes that the otherwise known Syriac noun zāṭrā is the etymon, but the waw in the root proves that the verbal form itself is denominative of the (unattested in Syriac) zūṭar, i.e. the absolute form of the attested emphatic ܙܘܛܐ wherein the resh has elided. See note s.v. zwṭˀ.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJBA: 403bJastrow: 386Drower/Macuch: 164bPayne-Smith: 1116Audo: 1:270

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