The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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l) a01

OA just l presumably always prefixed to the following word. Sam. occasionally the same. Early Egyptian OfA alternating lh and lˀ but elsewhere almost always with final aleph in the literary tradition and even so in Gal. and Sam. where other final long /a/ vowels are regularly rendered with heh.

  1 no, not Com. --(a) ܠܵܐ ܗܘܵܐ : it is not Syr.
  2 ܕܠܵܐ : without : see s.v. dlˀ prep. Syr. --(a) ܕܠܵܐ ܂܂܂ ܘܠܵܐ : without ... and without ... Syr.
  3 compounded with adjectives, nom.agg., abstracts, and adverbs ='un-', 'non', 'in-' Syr. --(a) nom. agg. . (a.1) adjectives therefrom . 1 adverbs therefrom . 2 abstracts therefrom . --(b) other adjectives . --(c) other abstract nouns (not ending in ūṯā) .
  4 הלא see s.v. hlˀ adv. BA-Da.

br@mn p01

br mn (bar min) prep. except for; outside of

  1 except for, aside from OfA-Egypt, JLAtg, Gal, PTA, CPA, Sam, JBA, LJLA.
  2 as conj. : unless OfA-Egypt.
  3 to the outside of JLAtg, LJLA. --(a) beyond (?), out of (?) JLAtg.