Mt. Qāsiyūn - ܛܘܪܐ ܕܩܐܣܝܘܢ

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A mountain north of Damascus.

Names

  • ܛܘܪܐ ܕܩܐܣܝܘܢ
  • Mt. Qāsiyūn1
  • ܛܘܪܳܐ ܕܩܰܐܣܒܘܢ2
  • جبل قاسيون3
  • قَاسيُون5
  • Qasyun Mountain4

Place Type

mountain

Descriptions

A mountain north of Damascus.

Attestation

Attestation of name قَاسيُون in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. قَاسيُون5 5

Notes

Dolabani's Syriac form was derived from Barsoum's Arabic, but reading a letter baʾ (with one dot) instead of the letter yaʾ (with two dots).
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  • 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 111.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 557.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 517.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 558.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV:335.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Mt. Qāsiyūn — ܛܘܪܐ ܕܩܐܣܝܘܢ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/518.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Mt. Qāsiyūn — ܛܘܪܐ ܕܩܐܣܝܘܢ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published June 30, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/518.

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