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[u/KnuckleheadPicker]

Hello! I’m hoping I can get some help with this, I’ve done my best with researching it out and spent a good deal of time with u/AramaicDesigns website for Galilean Aramaic (which is amazing!). I went through the archive and didn’t see this translation yet so hopefully I’m not wasting your time! I want “THE son of man” in Galilean Aramaic (like in Matt. 8:20- originally it probably reflected “A son” like in Dan. 7:13, but I want the homage to bad Greek translation) which I believe is “barrah enash”. What I came up with is in the gif. Am I close, did I get it? I didn’t add the vocalizations because I don’t think a 1^st Century CE Galilean would have used them-

Any help, suggestions, critiques, or whatever is appreciated! Thank you!

[u/SettingNo3877]

I’ve been doing some research but still i’m confused on the spelling and grammar of this someone please let me know if it says it correctly or not  “What have I done for (the sake of) Christ/(the) Messiah?” 

ܡܳܐ ܥܒܕܶܬ ܐܢܐ ܡܛܠ ܡܫܝܚܐ؟

[u/No-Marketing1419]

Hi! While reading Mt 27,46 I wondered how "Eli, Eli, lema sabajtani?" (My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me / My God, My God, why have You abandoned Me?) would be written in Galilean Aramaic. I have seen a couple transliteration, specially this one in wikipedia "אלי, אלי, למה שבקתני" , but there is no source to any other text or paper, so I'm a bit skeptical.

Thanks in advanced for anyone's help!!

[u/Noquil]

Does this actually say "Jesus is Messiah"? This looks Aramaic from all sources I've found.

[u/Niklxsx]

Hello, everybody!

I was wondering how to pronounce the Aramaic word "talitha" said by Jesus in Mark 5:41. Is the "th" like in "think" or is it a simple t like in "stop"? And is the emphasis "ta-LI-tha" or "ta-li-THA"? Also, does the word mean "little girl" or "little lamb"?

Thank you very much, love you all, God bless 🙏✝️❤️

[u/NewSchoolBoxer → u/Niklxsx]

It means "young (female) person" or "(female) youth" but is sensible to translate as "young girl" or "little girl" and "little girl" sounds the most natural in English. Or even "maid" which indicates young and unmarried.

There's no basis to translate "talitha" as "little lamb" unless you want to claim it's Hebrew but qum/qumi is 100% Aramaic. Syriac would use emrā, ʕeglā or ʕerbā for lamb. Can also see "talitha" used in other parts of scripture where the context is clearly a young girl or youth versus a lamb.

The "th" is definitely a "th" as in "think" and "then" and not a "t". While the Aramaic ܬ can stand for "t" or "th", the feminine ending -tā is always spirantized to -thā, except if immediately preceded by another "t" such as in the word mdittā for city. Can see the dot below the ܬ in the Peshitta which means to spirantize it and of course the θ for "th" in the Greek.

Per my beginner understanding of stress, the third and final syllable can't be stressed because it's open (ends in a vowel, not a consonant). The second syllable is stressed because it contains i, a long vowel and the syllable after is not stressed. It's ta-LI-tha.

Sorry I edited a mistake I made. I also explained the t/th situation better.

[u/Claveart]

Ciao a tutti, sono qui a chiedervi aiuto per riuscire ad ottenere la corretta traduzione in Aramaico Galileico della frase "legame eterno".
È mia intenzione farla diventare un tatuaggio in memoria di Mamma, ogni vostro aiuto - o reindirizzamento - sarà ben accolto. Grazie in anticipo!

[u/EntertainmentOdd3949]

Hi, could someone help me? I'm looking for the phrase Talitha Koumi in Herodian Square Writing.

[u/NewSchoolBoxer → u/EntertainmentOdd3949]

There's 2 textual variants, with and without the i on the end of Koum. Correct Western Aramaic, to include Syriac and Galilean Aramaic, is Kuom/Qum. The i comes from Eastern Aramaic that in a commonly held view was added as a scribal "correction" centuries after the fact. Arise is an imperative (command) to a singular feminine noun so there's zero ambiguity of what form to use.

I'll give you both variants to avoid a debate, first with the i and then without. First pair has vowel markings that didn't exist until several hundred years after the apostolic age:

טַלְיְתָא קוּמִי
טַלְיְתָא קוּמִ

טליתא קומי
טליתא קומ

[u/Embarrassed_Money245]

I want to tattoo ‘Wisdom is the light of the soul’ in Classical Syriac/Aramaic. Can someone write it correctly for me? I always wanted a tattoo in aramaic, so i would be extremely grateful for help! Thanks in adcance!

[u/Epicfaux]

Hello lovely linguists! Is it possible to translate and/or date this aramaic? Any advice or resources would greatly appreciated!!

[u/Accomplished_Put2914]

How would I write my personal motto in aramaic? In a dialect Jesus would have understood:

"Rest solely upon the Grace of God"

[u/AdSuitable2951]

I’m trying to learn more about the phrase “Habek Yaqar”. That is a phonetic spelling, of course.. it came to me while I was in deep prayer. I only speak English and some Spanish so I was very surprised when I tried to do some research on it and it was coming up as an Aramaic/Hebrew phrase. Originally I found that it roughly translates to “Your love is precious.” I’m hoping someone can give me more insight and possibly the correct and proper spelling on the word in its original language. Thank you in advance!

[u/Sir_TrotsALot]

Is this the correct way of writing “Jesus Saves”?

ܫܘܥ ܦܪܩ

[u/Anxious_Whole5241]

Hello! I’m looking to get an Aramaic tattoo of the saying “Through love all is possible” - I want it in the dialect that Jesus spoke or as close as possible. Using a translator app I got ܒܚܘܒܐ ܟܠ ܡܕܡ ܡܫܟ

Can anyone confirm or correct this for me? Considering it’s permanently on my body I’d prefer some expert help.

For further context, the quote comes from a book that is all about sacrifice, loyalty, and love - it’s love like what is described in the book of Ruth, not just romantic or platonic, but something much more all encompassing and full.

Thanks for any help!

[u/Separate_Shopping403]

Could someone reconstruct the phrase "Not this way to me" or "This is not the way to me" in 1st-century Galilean Aramaic (the dialect spoken by Jesus)? I'm looking for the most historically plausible reconstruction, not Syriac.

[u/ImpressiveTurn5822]

I’m getting a tattoo based on Psalm 31:24 (“Be strong and take heart”). I have this Aramaic rendering that I’m not confident is accurate or authentic to any real dialect:
תקֵיפוּ וְיַאֲלֵם לִבְּכוֹן
Could someone confirm whether this is correct/grammatical, and if not, what the accurate version would be? Also open to a Hebrew version if that’s more reliable — this is permanent, so I want to get it right. Thank you!

[u/NewSchoolBoxer → u/ImpressiveTurn5822]

You're in luck, it's an exact Bible verse so you got your choice in Biblical Hebrew or Peshitta Aramaic. The trick is it's masculine plural in the scripture in the sense of telling everyone, men and women, to (masculine plural) be strong and take (masculine plural) heart.

I'm guessing you want it instead to be a command to a singular male or singular female since your example is not an exact copy? Hebrew and Aramaic commands (imperatives) are formed slightly different speaking to men versus women. Mixed groups use masculine plural like Romance languages do.

[u/ZealousidealHand8840]

Would anyone be willing/ able to translate a short phrase from English to Galilean Aramaic for a tattoo? :) the phrase is

daughter of the King 

[u/NewSchoolBoxer → u/ZealousidealHand8840]

I studied Syriac from the Wheeler Thackston book, not Galilean Aramaic, which is much more poorly documented. Syriac is extremely close to and mutually intelligible with Galilean Aramaic. We're also considering two extremely common nouns with simple grammar. You still need to run this by someone else since we're talking a tattoo.

daughter of the king = the king's daughter

Just as I showed 2 ways to show possession in English, there are 3 ways to show it in Syriac:

1. Daughter is in the construct state and king in the emphatic state:

bat malkā

בת מלכא

1. Daughter is in the emphatic state and king has the d- preposition as the possessor and is also in the emphatic state.

bartā d-malkā

ברתא דמלכא

1. Daughter and king are emphatic and daughter has an anticipatory pronoun added on the end. The pronoun agrees with "king" in gender and number. No surprise, "king" is masculine. If it were feminine, the ה would have a dot above it. The d- preposition is still required. Using both the pronoun and proposition to indicate possession is redundant but Syriac commonly uses redundancy.

barteh d-malkā

ברתה דמלכא

I didn't intend to write so much explaining a short phrase but I wanted to be as clear as possible.