ܢܰܡܛܳܐ nmṭʾ namṭā felt
Allotrope: ܠܲܡܛܵܐ lmṭʾ lamṭā
MP namat [nmt'] felt (Nyberg 135); Av. nəmata- (AirWb 1068); NP namad felt; a garment of coarse cloth (Steingass 1425; Horn 233); NP, Arab. namaṭ wollen cloth or housing thrown over a camel-litter (ibid. 1426). — Talm. Aram. nmṭʾ stragula villosa (Telegdi 248, 97). Nöldeke 1898, 23 quotes Syr. lmṭʾ ( ← Pers. namat carpet) as an example of the change n > l in Syr. words borrowed from other languages, together with Syr. lwmʾ (← Gr. νοῦμμος): see § 11.3.2 ● nmṭʾ Merx 175; ON 153, 10; lmṭʾ EN chr 77, 9 (conj.) = 2197, 12; EN 37, 50; Merx p. 175 ◆ LS 431a; PS Suppl. 181