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The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

BT Tan 8b(30) :בימי ר׳ זירא גזרו שמאדא דלא למיתב בתעניתא‏ : in the time of PN, they decreed a religious persecution not to fast
See the entire entry for šmāḏ, šmāḏā v.n. curse; forcible conversion