ܒܘܪܓܐ

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”), via Latin burgus or Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos). The sense of "zodiac sign" is influenced by Arabic بُرْج (burj), itself borrowed from Syriac.

• IPA^(key): [burɡɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [burɡe] (plural)

ܒܘܪܓܐ • (būrgā) m (plural ܒܘܪܓܐ)

1. tower, turret, fortress
2. columbarium
3. (astrology) zodiac sign

   Synonym: ܡܠܘܫܐ

• → Arabic: بُرْج (burj)
  • Maltese: borġ
  • → Azerbaijani: bürc
  • → Classical Persian: بُرْج (burj)
    • Tajik: бурҷ (burj)
    • → Bengali: বুরুজ (buruj)
    • → Gujarati: બુરજ (buraj)
    • → Hindustani:

      Hindi: बुर्ज (burj)

      Urdu: بُرْج (burj)

    • → Punjabi:

      Gurmukhi script: ਬੁਰਜ (buraj)

      Shahmukhi script: برج (burj)

    • → Marwari: बुरज (burj)
  • → Georgian: ბურჯი (burǯi)
  • → Northern Kurdish: birc
  • → Malay: buruj
  • → Middle Armenian: պուրճ (purč), պուրջ (purǰ), բուրջ (burǰ)
    • Armenian: բուրջ (burǰ)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: برج (burc)
    • Turkish: burç, burc

• “bwrg”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 15 May 2011
• Costaz, Louis (2002), Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 26b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 39a
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009), A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana; Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, →ISBN, page 130b