MANDAEAN ALPHABET
O (A) - the Highest of all - Perfection, Light and Life, the beginning and end of all things
Ba - (Ab). The Great Father
Ga - (1) : Gauriil Ishliha - Gabriel the Messenger
(2):Gimra anat Gmira - Perfection thou art Perfect
Da - Dirka - the way or law
Ha - (1): Hiia rbia. The Great Life
(2): Hibil Ziwa.
Wa - Weyli! (written Wailh). Woe to him who listens not to the language of light!
Za - Ziwa--The word means radiance or rather active light active. The character is evidently a pictograph of the sun above the horizon or he sun as a life-giver
Eh - This Letter is so sacred that it is not much employed. It represents the Eye of God.
T'a - (1) Tab - Good (pronouned Tau)
(2) It is the bird (tayr) representing the soul leaving the body to return (to the World of Light). This is clearly the pictograph of a flying bird, symbol of the freed soul, the mana winging its way back to the Great Mana.
Ya - (1) Yowmono -the day
(2) Yamin - the right - the right is symbolic of Light the left of darkness, the right of being and the left of non-being.
Ka - (1) Klila - The Myrtle Wreath
(2) Kushta - Truth, right-dealing, righteous
La - Lishan - the tongue which praises
Ma - Mana Rba Kabira. - The Great First Mind or Soul
Na - Nhura - Light
Sa - Simat Hiia - the mother of all life
' - Ain - the Eye or Fountain (not a guttural in Mandaic merely a vowel)
Pa - Pira anat Haiy - Thou art the tree of Life
S'a - S'auta abar qadmaiia. Thou art the First Voice (sound)
Qa - Qala anat qadmaiia d' Hiia -. Thou art the first cry of Life
Sha - Shamish (sun spirit)
Ta - Toba - repentance
Adu - this is counted as a letter always though it is the possessive particle
A - O first letter.
FROM THE BOOK
MANDAEANS OF IRAQ AND IRAN
BY E.S. DROWER
