If you’ve ever seen my news feed setup for anything Aramaic you’d think I was obsessed. Well, in a word: Yes. 🙂 I’m always constantly crawling the internet looking for new stuff posted about the language, and today I came across a very unfortunate tattoo on deviantArt whose owner I am trying very hard to contact.
Update (March 12, 2008): Since I’ve published this article, the author has contacted me and requested that I take the image down, so I have done so to respect his wishes. You can still view the image through his deviantArt Profile here.
khûvkûn b-shrîrâ’
khûvkûn
Comes from the root word khûbâ which means “love”
The suffix -kûn means “your” in the masculine plural. This is awkward.
ܒܫܪܝܪܐ
b-shrîrâ’
Comes from the root word shrîrâ’ which should mean “truth” but is generally found in the feminine form ܫܪܝܪܬܐ shrîrtâ’ otherwise it should be in the form ܫܪܪܐ shrârâ’. It’s possible that whoever translated this was trying to work from an adjectival form (ܫܪܝܪ shrîr) which would make it technically correct, but a bit awkward.
The prefix be- means “in,” “within” or “among” depending on context (here it’s certainly “in”).
Despite the misspellings this literally translates to:
“Your (masc. pl.) love in truth.”
Not really “True Love,” but not incomprehensible. Although the tattoo came out beautifully, the actual translation was very sloppy.
Please don’t let this happen to you! Trust a professional.
I appreciate this post. I’m considering a tattoo with the words “Love” and “Sacrifice”
So far I’ve been unsuccessful in my attempts to find the correct translation to Aramaic. I have found a Hebrew translation of each word, but I’m unclear if I need the markings underneath.
Are you willing or able to help me translate to Aramaic?
jhageman,
Thanks for commenting. 🙂
Unfortunately, I get a very large number of requests for help with Aramaic translations on a daily basis that I no longer have the time do to all of them pro bono.
As such I strongly recommend that you submit your inquiry to Aramaic Designs.
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Peace,
-Steve
i want to translate 4 words to aramaic ” journey of love yarn ”