Historical personal name
Yahballaha
Related to the attested name Yahbalaha; the exact doubled-l catalogue form and literal compound meaning are not verified here.
- Language layer
- Church name in Syriac tradition; exact catalogue spelling requires separate evidence
- Written spelling
- Not independently checked
- Personal-name evidence
- Yahbalaha III, a Church of the East patriarch of Uighur origin, lived approximately 1245–1317.
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- Popularity / modern gender
- Not established by these sources.
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Meaning, use and context
Joseph Amar documents Yahbalaha III as a Uighur monk born near Beijing who later became patriarch of the Church of the East. His early monastic name was Markos; he took Yahbalaha on election in 1281. The attestation is therefore specifically a later ecclesiastical name, not necessarily a birth name.
His career was connected with Rabban Ṣawma and the Mongol world. Accounts preserve both diplomatic activity and severe losses experienced by Christian communities. A Syriac church name could be adopted by someone of non-Syriac ancestry, so the name alone should not be used to infer a bearer's ethnicity.
Yahballaha has a doubled letter absent from the source's Yahbalaha. The 'God has given' translation needs linguistic verification. This check does not establish every present-day spelling, popularity or pronunciation in an Assyrian or Syriac spoken variety.
Evidence for this entry
- Joseph P. Amar — Yahbalaha III, GEDSH ↗
Historical bearer, Uighur origin, distinction between Markos and adopted patriarchal name, and source spelling; not exact Yahballaha form or compound etymology.
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