Eastern Syriac : | ܪܲܒܵܝ |
Western Syriac : | ܪܰܒܳܝ |
Root : | ܪܒܝ |
Eastern phonetic : | rab ' ba: i |
Category : | noun |
[Professions] | |
English : | an usurer , a loan shark / gombeen man , one who loans money at an exorbitant rate , an (unfair) moneylender ; also Sokoloff - ܪܵܒܵܝܵܐ |
French : | un usurier , un prêteur à un taux exorbitant ; |
Dialect : | Eastern Syriac, Classical Syriac |
Cf. ܪܒܐ, ܪܒܵܝܵܐ, ܪܸܒܝܵܢܵܝܵܐ, ܪܸܒܝܼܬ݂ܵܐ