Is the Word _Tur_ Meaning Mountain Syriac and Not Arabic

Is the word “Tur” meaning mountain Syriac and not Arabic?

We say, and with God’s help

, that the Arabic and Syriac languages ​​go back to a common origin, so it is natural to find many words that agree in both languages ​​in pronunciation and meaning, or one of the languages ​​may develop and the common pronunciation indicates additional meanings in one language but not the other.

The word “tur” which in Syriac is ܛܘܪ and is pronounced “tur” meaning mountain is one of the words shared between the two languages. The

word among the Arabs means what is on the level of something or next to it, and it is applied to every mountain and they called it that because each tribe has a special mountain that it inhabits along and next to it, as the Arabic dictionaries have shown.

We do not say that Arabic took the word from Syriac, nor that Syriac took it from Arabic, but rather it is one of the shared words.

His saying: “and the Tur and the Tawar” (with the fatha and damma): what is on the level of something or next to it,

and the Tur: the mountain ,

Lisan al-Arab dictionary

Tur: the mountain , Al-

Qamoos Al-Muhit

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Tur: the mountain.

And the mountain is a mountain that grows trees.

And the mountain is what is on the edge of something or next to it.