Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) is an online database containing a searchable dictionary and text corpora of Aramaic dialects. CAL includes more than 3 million lexically parsed words.

The project was started in the 1980s and is currently hosted by the Jewish Institute of Religion at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dialects

CAL includes the following Aramaic dialects and texts.

• Old Aramaic
• Imperial Aramaic
• Biblical Aramaic
• Qumran Aramaic: fragments of Daniel, a "targum" of verses in Leviticus, and Qumran Targum Job
• Jewish Literary Aramaic: Targums Onqelos, Jonathan to the Prophets
• Palestinian Targumic Aramaic: Targum Neofiti, Fragment Targums, Cairo Genizah fragments
• Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
• Syriac
• Old Testament Peshitta (including Old Testament Apocrypha)
• New Testament Peshitta and Old Syriac Gospels
• Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA)
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
• Mandaic (curated by Matthew Morgenstern and Ohad Abudraham)
• Late Jewish Literary Aramaic: Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to the Pentateuch, all Targums to the Hagiographa
• Samaritan Aramaic: Targum J

See also

• Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament
• Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions

References

External links

• Dialects and texts
• Syriac texts
• Mandaic texts
• Lexicon browser
• Gloss search