(a.) Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch.
(n.) The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.
Example Sentences:
(1) In May, masked men abducted Syrian priest Jacques Mourad, from the Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain, near the Isis-held ancient city of Palmyra.
(2) Clashes are ongoing near Tal Tamr, an Assyrian town that straddles the river, where forces from the Syriac Military Council militia and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) – the militia that emerged victorious in the battle for the border town of Kobani – are defending the town.
(3) "We are deeply worried for the lives of archbishop Mor Gregorius Yohanna Ibrahim of the Syriac Orthodox Church and bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church," said Katrina Lantos Swett, who chairs the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (Uscirf).
(4) There have been bad things happening to Christians in Syria … So you could imagine that she is a willing participant.” So far, Mother Agnes has spoken at 16 locations around the US, mostly Catholic churches, particularly Syriac Antioch churches which serve the Syrian Christian diaspora.
(5) It returned Mor Gabriel, a 1,700-year-old monastery in Mardin, to the Christian Syriac community .
(6) Bishop Yuhanna Ibrahim, head of the Syriac Orthodox church in Aleppo, and Bishop Boulos Yaziji, of the Greek Orthodox church in the city, were abducted by gunmen Syrian state media called "terrorists".
(7) The mix of Christian denominations is ancient and mind-boggling: Syriac Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, Chaldean Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Assyrian.
(8) According to a Syriac Christian who lives in Damascus but is originally from Qaryatain, the town’s Christian population has dropped to only 300.
(9) They are not destroying our present life, or only taking the villages, churches, and homes, or erasing our future – they want to erase our culture, past and civilisation,” said Habib Afram, the president of the Syriac League of Lebanon, adding that Isis’s actions were reminiscent of the Mongol invasion of the Middle East.
(10) What our people are facing is part of a series of attempts to uproot them from here,” Kino Gabriel, one of the leaders of the Syriac Military Council, said by telephone from Hassakeh.
(11) Monks at the 4th-century Mar Behnam monastery, a major pilgrimage site run by the Syriac Catholic church, were allowed to take only the clothes they were wearing.
(12) Why is it that the Syriacs have been returned their monastery and the Greek Orthodox have been left out?
(13) A Demand for Action, a rights group that campaigned for the EU resolution, said: “We will continue to take our message to the halls of power around the world and will never stop demanding justice for our innocent victims of this genocide and doing all we can to make a home for Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs and other minorities in the Middle East.” Confirmation of the attack on Dur-Sharrukin came as Isis – also known as Isil, or in Arabic Daesh – appeared on the verge of its first major setback in Iraq, with Iraqi forces led by Shia militias and backed by Sunni tribal fighters and Iraq’s army appeared poised to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown .
(14) This month the first wedding since what Assad loyalists call the liberation was celebrated in the quarter’s first-century Syriac Orthodox church, Umm al-Zennar.
(15) Syria conflict four years on: share your stories Read more “This is another episode in the targeting to the Christians of the east,” Habib Afram, president of the Syriac League in Lebanon, which represents the Assyrian minority , told the Guardian.
(16) It’s unprecedented,” said Afram of the Syriac League.
(17) I don’t believe that there is an international community, or that there are values anymore.” David Vergili, a member of the European Syriac Union, said Isis had done “tremendous damage to the social fabric of the Middle East”.
(18) Everything that doesn’t conform to the most strict Wahhabi standards of acceptability, anything that is beloved by people that Isis doesn’t like, anything that represents non-Isis interpretations of Islam such as Shiism or Sufism, and anything from before the time of Muhammad.” Sanhareb Barsom, an official with the Syriac Union party across the border in Syria’s Hassakeh province, where the Assyrian community has also come under assault by Isis, told the Guardian: “These are not Assyrian artefacts, these are artefacts for all of humanity.” Isis kidnapped more than 200 Assyrians in a sweep through villages south of the Khabur river last month, where members of the community had settled after the Simele massacre in the 1930s by the then-kingdom of Iraq.
Syrian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac.
(n.) A native of Syria.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(2) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(3) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(4) Chromosome aberrations were scored in BHK21 C13 Syrian hamster fibroblasts, exposed to 60Co gamma-rays, 250 kV X-rays, 15 MeV neutrons or neutrons of mean energy 2.1 MeV produced from the 9Be(d,n)10B reaction.
(5) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
(6) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(7) Malignant melanoma of the conjunctival region was induced in the golden Syrian hamster.
(8) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
(9) Welcomed with open arms a month ago, Syrians are now attacked on popular television talkshows where they are described as Morsi sympathisers.
(10) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(11) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(12) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
(13) Experiments were performed in vitro on strips of diaphragmatic muscle obtained from 21 Syrian hamsters.
(14) But Syrians have borne the brunt of the hatred because of the unfortunate way they became associated with Morsi in the dying days of his presidency.
(15) On the other hand, Tris-CP and Tris-BP were both equally effective in transforming Syrian hamster embryo cells in vitro.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(17) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(18) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
(19) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
(20) They make a big deal when it happens, and then they forget.” The use of sarin has been highly contentious throughout the Syrian war.