The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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qdm p02

Syr ܩܕܵܡ ; CPA ܩܘܕܡ

  1 before Com. --(a) spatial Com. (a.1) in the presence of, with a high official or divinity reflecting respect and distance Com. (a.2) reflecting close relationship to a king or god Com. --(b) temporal Com. (b.1) before a rel. clause as a conjunction Com.
  2 opposite Syr.
  3 as a substantive : front part Syr.

dy p01

dy prep. of, genitive particle

OA, OfA zy; MA dy, d; later d but also dy in various positions; Sam. often אד; in Mandaic written with a unique ligature developed from "d" + "y", in our code transcribed as "ḏ", and considered to be the last letter of the alphabet.

  1 of, genitive particle Com. --(a) w. implied head word: the thing(s) belonging/related to s..o./something Com.
  2 first element of lexemes Com.
  3 in split genitive phrases Com. --(a) after certain prepositions with pronominal suffix : itself, very Syr.
  4 after numbers Com. --(a) before cardinal numbers: as ordinal Syr.
  5 determinative pron. Com.
  6 per, by Syr.