The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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l) a

OA just l presumably always prefixed to the following word. Sam. occasionally the same. Early Egyptian OfA alternating lh and lˀ but elsewhere almost always with final aleph in the literary tradition and even so in Gal. and Sam. where other final long /a/ vowels are regularly rendered with heh.

  1 no, not Com. --(a) ܠܵܐ ܗܘܵܐ : it is not Syr.
  2 ܕܠܵܐ : without : see s.v. dlˀ prep. Syr. --(a) ܕܠܵܐ ܂܂܂ ܘܠܵܐ : without ... and without ... Syr.
  3 compounded with adjectives, nom.agg., abstracts, and adverbs ='un-', 'non', 'in-' Syr. --(a) nom. agg. . (a.1) adjectives therefrom . 1 adverbs therefrom . 2 abstracts therefrom . --(b) other adjectives . --(c) other abstract nouns (not ending in ūṯā) .
  4 הלא see s.v. hlˀ adv. BA-Da.

ktb verb G

ktb vb. a/u to write

Mand. almost always KDB

G
1 to write Com. --(a) to authorize by preparing a legal document . (a.1) to adopt Syr. (a.2) to leave by will Gal.
2 to draw Syr.

D
1 to enroll, register : see s.v. kwtb Syr.

C
  1 to dictate Syr. --(a) to allow to be written, have recorded Syr.
  2 to compose Syr. --(a) p.p. : written, composed LJLA.
  3 to dedicate Syr.

Gt
1 to be written Com.
2 to be enrolled Syr.