Historical personal name
Khoshaba
Sunday; related to the Aramaic/Syriac formation ḥad bšabbā.
ܚܕܒܫܒܐ
- Language layer
- Aramaic/Syriac
- Written spelling
- Checked in the cited source
- Personal-name evidence
- Ḥadbšabbā and Khōšābā are documented as personal names of Alqosh scribes.
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- Popularity / modern gender
- Not established by these sources.
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Meaning, use and context
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon documents the Sunday formation. This verifies the lexical basis; the separate manuscript study supplies the missing evidence that related forms were actually used as personal names.
Kessel and Arzhanov identify nineteenth-century Alqosh scribes named Ḥadbšabbā and Khōšābā in their field notes. A specific manuscript colophon is stronger evidence for a historical bearer than an unsupported statement that a word is “traditional.”
Spellings and pronunciation vary by place and period. The regional Sureth dictionary supplies script and variant forms, but its phonetic transcription is not promoted as universal. No claim is made about the frequency of this name among current families.
Evidence for this entry
- CAL — Sunday headword ↗
Aramaic lexical formation.
- Kessel and Arzhanov — Field Notes on Syriac Manuscripts III ↗
Named scribes, pages 103–104.
- Sureth dictionary — entry 4112 ↗
Regional spellings and forms.
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