The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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l) a01

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.

$m( verb G

šmˁ vb. a/a(u) to hear

CPA imv. ܫܡܘܥ

G
  1 to hear and respond to Com. --(a) šmyˁ l_ : he has heard, he knew Syr, JBA.
  2 to listen Syr. --(a) to obey Com. --(b) to understand Com. (b.1) +מן : to infer from JBA. (b.2) ܥܲܡ : to converse with Syr.
  3 to hold a hearing Syr.
  4 imv. : the shema LJLA.

D
1 to announce Syr.

C
  1 to cause to hear Com. --(a) to announce Com.
  2 to give to understand, teach a legal tradition JBA.
  3 to cause to obey Syr.
  4 to imply JBA.

Gt
  1 to be heard Com.
  2 to be famous Syr.
  3 to be known Syr. --(a) to be intelligible, to be logically interpreted Syr.
  4 to listen Syr. --(a) to obey BA-Da, Qum, JLAtg, Syr, LJLA.

Dt
1 to receive an announcement Syr.