The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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brh noun pl. emphatic

brh, brtˀ (brā, barṯā/brattā) n.f. daughter

Forms of the construct and emphatic vary widely among dialects: OfA: brh, brt, brtˀ; JLA בְּרה٠ בַּת٠ בְּרַתָּא ; Syr. ܒܲܪ̄ܬ܂ ܒܲܪܬܵܐ ; JBA בְּרַת٠ בַּת٠ בְּרַתָּא . The construct state is regularly pronounced and spelled baṯ, but in Syriac spelled historically with a resh that is not pronounced. OA only pl. bnth and so other non-late dialects; LJLA pl. also ברתא ; Mand const. often: pt in full names

  1 daughter Com. --(a) girl Syr. --(b) daughter of a relation Com. --(c) a female member of a animal species Com. (c.1) in construct with a noun characterizing the nature of such a species Com.
  2 a small part of something . --(a) minor town Com. (a.2) ܒܪܬ ܨܗܝܘܢ : Jerusalem Syr.
  3 in compounds: member of the same cohort: see s.vv. brt_, bnt Com. --(a) a type of female relative Com. --(b) characterizing individual f. members of a class or group Com. (b.1) same X one : someone sharing a characteristic Com. (b.2) fellow female member of a group Com. 1 the gentilic group as a whole, figuratively characterized a young woman . (b.3) the attribute typically characterizing such female members Syr.
  4 in construct with a unit of time: female aged X Com. --(a) separated from the time unit by a number Com.
  5 a small, spherical object . --(a) berry Syr, JBA. (a.1) specific types of berries, seeds, or grains . --(b) egg Syr. --(c) in construct with the full-sized object . (c.1) a characteristic having the appearance of such small objects Syr. --(d) in construct with a noun characteristic of such an object Syr.

)w c

ˀw (ˀaw/ˀō) conj. or

CPA: ܐܐܿ (CPA also has ܐܘ , but that would appear to be a loan from Arabic.

  1 or Com.
  2 ˀw ... ˀw : if . . . but if, whether . . . or Com. --(a) alone : if (possibly simply a scribal error for normative JBA אי < ˀn) JBA, JBAg.
  3 equivalent to MT אִם as the second clause in a question Qum, Gal.
  4 with comparative adjs. or actions (calque of Greek. ἤ): rather than, more than Syr.