יָנוּקָא

יָנוּקָאI m. (יְנַק) suckling, infant; child; school-boy. Targ. Y. Gen. 48:20.Gitt.57a כי הוה מתיליד י׳ … ינוקתאוכ׳ whenever a male child was born, they used to plant a cedar, when a female, they planted Sabb.134a האי י׳ דלית ליהוכ׳ an infant (to be circumcised on the Sabbath) for which no bandage has been prepared, v. חָלוּק I.Succ.56b (prov.) שותא די׳וכ׳ the childs talk in the street is either the fathers or the mothers (talk at home). Snh.110b (ref. to פתאים, Ps. 116:6) שכן … קורין לי׳ פתיא for in the sea towns they call a child pathia. B. Bath.21a כד מחית לי׳וכ׳ when thou (as teacher) strikest a child, strike it only with a shoe-strap. Ib. לא ממטינן י׳וכ׳ we must not let a child go to school from one place to another (but must provide a school for each place).Gen. R. s. 36, a. e. יַנִּיקָא; a. fr.Pl. יָנוּקֵי. B. Bath. l. c. מקרי י׳ primary school teacher, v. דַּרְדְּקָא; a. fr.Fem. יָנוּקְתָּא. Gitt. l. c., v. supra.B. Bath.3b האי י׳ that maiden (of Hasmonean descent, Mariamne).