SEDonline
Semitic Etymological Database
Words
Reconstructions
About
Abbreviations
References
Syriac
birtā - palace, fortress
(LSyr. 69, SL 143)
< Akk. bīrtu ‘citadel, castle (as part of a city); fort’ (Kaufman 1974, 44, Mankowski 2000, 46f.)