The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

מַטְּרָה‏ n.f. custody, care

custody, care JLAtg, Syr, LJLA. watch, guard (an official function) JLAtg, Gal, PTA, CPA, Sam, Syr, JBA, Man, LJLA. safekeeping Qumran, PTA, CPA, JBA, LJLA.

watch (as a time of night or day) CPA, Syr, LJLA.

observance JLAtg, Gal, PTA, Syr, LJLA.

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 303b; DJBA: 661b; Jastrow: 770; Tal Sam: 522; Cook,Qumran: 137;

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Derivatives:

byt mṭrh n.m. detention quarters