The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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zmn noun sg. emphatic

LJLA rare var. זבן (see s.v. zbn #2)

  1 set time Com, ^-OA ^-Syr. --(a) לִזמַן : after the period of time of ... JLAtg. (a.1) לזימנין : subsequently (?) JBA. --(b) מִזמַן לִזמַן : season after season JLAtg. --(c) summons for a set time (?) OfA-Iran.
  2 instance Qum, Gal, PTA, LJLA. --(a) כִזמַן בִזמַן<ִ> ְ ַדּ ְ ַס ֻסַֻל JLAtg.
  3 pl. abs. : sometimes Qum, PTA, JBA, LJLA.
  4 assembly [?? fr. Heb. מועד, better perhaps just "summons"] Qum, JLAtg, PTA, LJLA.
  5 now (?) Syr.

m_ p = m_ p --> mn p

mn (men) prep. from

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.

$(h noun sg. emphatic

šˁh, šˁtˀ (šāˁā, šāˁtā) n.f. moment of time; hour

abs. normally šāˁā but often simply šāˁ in fixed expressions

  1 moment of time Com, ^-OA ^-OfA. --(a) בַּהּ־שַעֲתָא : at that time, at that very moment BA-Da, PTA. (a.1) with repeated b_ Qum, Syr, LJLA. --(b) ܕܫܥܬܐ : for a moment Syr. (b.1) modifying nouns in construct : X for a moment Syr. (b.2) for its own time Syr. --(c) kšˁh, lšˁh : for a while BA-Da, CPA. --(d) ܒܟܘܼܠܫܵܥ : always Syr. (d.1) כל שעה ד : conj. : whenever Gal.
  2 hour Com, ^-OA ^-OfA ^-BA. --(a) ܫܵܥ ܡܸܢ ܫܵܥ : each hour Syr.
  3 period of time Com. --(a) emphatic+d_, bšˁtˀ d : conj. : when Gal, PTA, CPA, Sam, Syr. --(b) after mn : since the time when Gal, Syr, LJLA.
  4 אַבַן שָעַיָא : sundial JLAtg. --(a) שָעַיָא idem. JLAtg.
  5 horoscope Syr.