syame

Alternative forms

 * seyame

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A diacritical mark used in Aramaic, written as two horizontal dots above a letter, indicating that a noun or adjective is plural, or occasionally that a word ends in /e/ or /ε/. If written above resh in the Syriac script, it replaces the single dot that differentiates it from daleth.

Usage notes
The word is plural in Aramaic. In English, some writers construe it as plural, others as singular.