The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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m_ p = m_ p --> mn p

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.

mry noun sg. abs. or construct

mry, mryˀ (mārē, māryā, mārā) n.m. master

Originally absolute and construct māreˀ ( > mārē), emphatic māryā, but already in OfA the construct can appear simply as mār_. Regularly shortened as a title of respect to mār (i.e., from the first person suffixed form?) and regularly spelled ܡܪܝ in Syriac but simply מר in Jewish texts; pl. both mārwān and mārē, the latter especially in compounds. The full determined form is māryā, but in Syriac that is used only for the Lord God (ie. the Tetragrammaton) and a new form mārā based on the short abs. is used in other contexts, even regularly so in reference to Jesus. Note that in JLAtg the sg. and pl. constructs are both מָרֵי .

  1 master Com. --(a) human Com. --(b) divine Com. (b.1) ܡܵܪܝܵܐ : the Lord, God Syr. (b.2) ܡܵܪܝ : my Lord, usually in reference to Jesus Syr.
  2 owner Com. --(a) (of a text) author Syr.
  3 title of respect Com. --(a) ܡܵܪܝ : clerical title Syr. --(b) w. first pers. suffix (מר٠ מור ) in respectfully addressing a man : sir JBA. (b.1) the previously mentioned rabbinic master JBA. --(c) patrician Syr. --(d) pl.: neighbors Syr.
  4 in the construct state as the head of many compound expressions Com. --(a) chief of ... Com. --(b) owner of ... Com. --(c) master of (i.e. specialist in) ... Com. --(d) an element of many PN's JBA.
  5 an angelic order Syr.