The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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)n$ noun sg. emphatic

ˀnš, ˀnšˀ ((ˀĕ)nāš, (ˀĕ)nāšā) n.m. person, someone

Syr. ܐ̄ܢܵܫܵܐ but often in the absolute in the meaning "someone"; JLAmb, LJLA abs. often אינש (see discussion s.v. ˀynyš) [Note that in TgPsJon all forms are spelled with אי , but not so in other LJLA texts.]

  1 person, someone Com. --(a) inhabitant Com. (a.1) sg. with pl. referent BA-Ez. (a.2) +by : household members : see s.v. ˀnšy bytˀ , JLAtg. --(b) with negative verb: no one Com. --(c) sg. emph. as a collective (w. plural agreement) Syr. --(d) unspecified male person JBA.
  2 Man, humanity (usually in the emphatic) BA-Da, Qum, Syr. --(a) people Syr. --(b) some Syr. --(c) family, relatives Syr.
  3 often in the absolute state (i.e., as a pronoun, even in Eastern Aramaic): . --(a) anyone Com, ^-OA. (a.1) ܟܠ ܐܢܫ, ܟܠܢܫ : everyone : see s.v. klnš CPA, Syr. --(b) ܠܐ ܐܢܫ : no one Syr. --(c) after a descriptive term for a person: a certain Syr. (c.1) even after a feminine noun! Syr. --(d) ܐܢܫ ܐܢܫ : each one CPA, Syr.

)th noun pl. emphatic= )th N --> )nth N

ˀnth, ˀnttˀ (ˀa/e(n)tā, ˀa/e(n)təṯā, ˀa(n)təṯā, ˀattā) n.f. woman

OfA also ˀn$h. In Syriac and CPA the nun is not pronounced but assimilated to the taw, which is thus lengthened. In CPA it is (usually?) not written, hence: abs. ܐܿܬܐ , emph ܐܬܐ

pl. nšyn, nšyˀ; Mand. sg. abs.! atuat; the original taw was spirantized, as in Syriac, but apparently was not so in all dialects

1 woman Com.
2 wife Com.