The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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br noun pl. construct

plural: bnīn (Sam. const. also bārī!); absolute: bar in literary and Eastern dialects, ber in Western. In the plurals of compounds br almost always appears in the plural form itself.

  1 son, child Com. --(a) of an animal Com.
  2 member of the same cohort (see also 'compounds' 3.2) Com. --(a) metaph.: disciple Syr. (a.1) in const. w. PN of a famous person Syr.
  3 in compounds . --(a) literally characterizing a type of child or son . (a.1) a kinship term . (a.2) a type of creature . (a.3) a small version of something . 1 a small object or being found attached to something else . --(b) characterizing individual members of a class or group . (b.1) same X one: someone sharing a characteristic . (b.2) member of a gentilic group . --(c) s.o marked by a particular acquired characteristic or skill . --(d) liable to be acted upon JBA. --(e) unclassified .
  4 in construct with a unit of time to express age Com. --(a) separated from the time unit by a number Syr. --(b) with a unit of measure to express size Syr.

(m p01

ˁm (ˁam; ˁim) prep. with

with pron. suffixes: ˁamm_; ˁimm_ + sg. suffixes.

  1 with, together with Com. --(a) in the presence of, possession of Com. (a.1) indicating assumption of a debt or receipt of goods OfA-Iran. --(b) governing the indirect object of verbs performed in another's presence Com. (b.1) with a reciprocal party Com.
  2 at Com. --(a) a place Com. --(b) toward or from the location of a something/someone Com.
  3 at the time of BA-Da, Qum, Gal, Syr. --(a) conj.: as soon as Syr, JBA. --(b) with v.n. BA-Ez.
  4 in translations of Greek compounds = συμ- Syr.
  5 as conj: in addition to the fact that, notwithstanding that Syr.