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.

$(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.