The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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m_ p03 = m_ p --> mn p

In Jewish texts also מין and [as in Hebrew] מִ ; w. pron. suffixes: מִינִּי etc.

  1 from Com. --(a) direction Com. (a.1) place Com. (a.2) person Com. (a.3) as first element of compound prepositions and adverbs indicating the origin of directional movement Com. --(b) origin Com. (b.1) place Com. 1 with words indicating location : e.g. מימין : on the right Com. (b.2) person Com. (b.3) material Com. (b.4) time Com. 1 conj.: since, after : see s.v. mn conj. Com. (b.5) as first element of compound prepositions and adverbs indicating the origin of movement through time Com. (b.6) as the second element of compound prepositions indicating relative location Com.
  2 partitive Com. --(a) indicating a fractional part Syr. (a.1) as a pseudo-substantive : some of Syr.
  3 indicating the agent BA-Ez, Syr.
  4 indicating the cause Com. --(a) conj : because : see s.v. mn conj. .
  5 comparative Com.
  6 : other verbal complements Com.
  7 between repeated absolutes: distributive Syr.
  8 : multiplicative Jud.
  9 : on the side of, with Syr, Man. --(a) as the first element of compound adverbs of manner Com. (a.1) mnh wbh, mnh wlh : of itself, by itself Syr, JBA. --(b) as an emphasizing first element of compound prepositions, conjunctions Com.
  10 : reflexive Syr.

xyl noun sg. abs. or construct

ḥyl, ḥylˀ (ḥayl/ḥēl, ḥaylā) n.m.(f.) army; force

const: ḥēl; pl: normally masc., but often ḥaylāwān when used as an abstract idea or in reference to armies in general or in particular the hosts of Heaven. (Jacob of Sarugh, for example, regularly distinguishes betweeen ܚܝ̈ܠܐ for "mighty deeds" or individual fighters and ܚܝ̈ܠܘܬܐ for "armies.")

Note, then that Payne-Smith and Levy created a separate, feminine lemma accordingly, where LS2 has just one. See the citations for an ex. of the fem. form of the plural used with masculine concord.

  1 army OA, OfA-Mes, OfA-Iran, Qum, JLAtg, PTA, CPA, Syr, JBA, LJLA. --(a) multitude JLAtg, Gal. --(b) heavenly power JLAtg, Syr.
  2 coll.: military unit/garrison and its members OfA-Egypt. --(a) sacred, clerical cohort Syr, LJLA. --(b) an order of angels, heavenly host JLAtg, Syr. --(c) sg. w. pl. numeral : size of a military force Syr.
  3 power, strength Com. --(a) ܠܦܘܬ or ܐܝܟ ܚܝܠܝ or Syr. --(b) miracle, incredible deed Syr. --(c) intrinsic potency, innate force Syr. --(d) ܒܚܝܠܐ : especially, virtually Syr. --(e) as an epithet of God : (due to late phonetic equivalence with ēl) Sam.
  4 metaph. . --(a) strength, essence, best part OA, Gal, Syr. --(b) intent, meaning Syr. (b.1) corroboration Syr. (b.2) force of an argument Gal, Syr, JBA. --(c) preciousness Syr. --(d) seriousness Syr.