The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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w_ c

lmh c

Sam also with conjoined relativeלמד

  1 why? Com. --(a) joined w. pronoun . --(b) with ל : what is X's need for? Qum, JLAtg, JBA.
  2 lest (= dlmh; q.v.) OfA-Pers, BA-Ez, JLAtg, Syr, LJLA.
  3 whether Syr.
  4 as a general interrogative particle in direct speech Syr.

kmh c

kmh conj. just as

Sam כמד ; JBA כמאן ד

1 just as JLAtg, Gal, PTA, Sam, Syr, JBAmb, Man, LJLA. --(a) just when, when (=MT כאשר ) Sam, LJLA. --(b) just as much as Gal, Sam, Syr, JBA. (b.1) as long as Syr, JBA. 1 ܟܠ ܟܡܐ ܕ : just as long as Syr. (b.2) ܟܡܐ ... ܟܡܐ : the more ... the more Syr. 1 for ܟܡܐ ܟܡܐ alone see s.v. kmh adv. Syr. (b.3) ܐܝܟ ܟܡܐ ܕ : inasmuch as Syr.
2 כמה ד٠ כמאן ד : as if Gal, JBA, JBAg.