Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) is an online database containing a searchable dictionary and text corpora of Aramaic dialects.^[1][2] CAL includes more than 3 million lexically parsed words.^[3]

The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
Type of project	Open access
Location	United States
Owner	Hebrew Union College
Established	1980s
Website	cal.huc.edu

The project was started in the 1980s^[4] and is currently hosted by the Jewish Institute of Religion at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dialects

CAL includes the following Aramaic dialects and texts.^[5][2]

• Old Aramaic
• Imperial Aramaic
• Biblical Aramaic
• Qumran Aramaic: fragments of Daniel, a "targum" of verses in Leviticus, and Qumran Targum Job
• Jewish Literary Aramaic: Targums Onqelos, Jonathan to the Prophets
• Palestinian Targumic Aramaic: Targum Neofiti, Fragment Targums, Cairo Genizah fragments
• Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
• Syriac
  • Old Testament Peshitta (including Old Testament Apocrypha)
  • New Testament Peshitta and Old Syriac Gospels
• Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA)
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
• Mandaic (curated by Matthew Morgenstern and Ohad Abudraham^[6])
• Late Jewish Literary Aramaic: Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to the Pentateuch, all Targums to the Hagiographa
• Samaritan Aramaic: Targum J

See also

• Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament