The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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mn p01

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.

mTl p01 = m+l p --> m+wl p

mṭwl (meṭṭūl) prep. on account of, because of

With pron. suffixes: ܡܛܠܬ ; in Palm. always and in Syriac usually defectively written. Also, often written as a compound with a following demonstrative, e.g. ܡܛܘܠܗܢܐ , etc.; for the Babylonian form see s.v. ˀmṭwl.

  1 on account of, because of Palm, PTA, Syr, JBAmb, Man, LJLA. --(a) ܡܛܘܠ ܗܢܐ : therefore Syr. --(b) ܡܛܘܠ ܡܢܐ : why? Syr.
  2 about, concerning Syr.
  3 w. ל +inf. : in order to PTA.