The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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gbr noun sg. abs. or construct

pl. גוברין from BA on; emph. also גוברא in JPA, JPAtg, JBA, and LJLA. In Syriac, however, the pl. emph. is always ܓܲܒܪܸ̈ܐ ; in JPAtg any of גַבְרַיָּא ,גָבְרַיָּא , or גוּבְרַיָּא

  1 man Com. --(a) specifically a male as opposed to a female Com. (a.1) especially a virile male Syr. 1 husband Com.
  2 person, someone OfA-Egypt, Qum, PTA, Syr. --(a) as a distributive Qum. (a.1) gbr gbr CPA, LJLA. (a.2) as a non-human Sam. --(b) abs. w. pl. verb : everyone, each OfA-Egypt, JLAtg, PTA, Syr, LJLA.
  3 supernatural being Man.

)y$ noun sg. abs. or construct

ˀyš (ˀīš) n.m. person; someone

OA, (DA, Sam'al), OfA informal also:אש ; morphologically this word is treated as a pronoun rather than a noun, with a determined form used only in Samaritan (and perhaps in two broken contexts in OA). Determined and plural equivalents are instead those of ˀnš and br ˀnš.

1 person Com, ^-Syr. --(a) a person of special position Sam. --(b) denizens (coll.) Qum. --(c) specifically: a male human being (?) Com, ^-Syr.
2 someone, no one, anyone Com, ^-Syr.