NB: a mdynh is the large "capital" city of an administrative unit which can also be referred to by the same name/term, just as city-states
in Antiquity were often called by the name of their capital city. In later periods a qryh is one of a number of large towns within such a unit, though in BA and earlier it can clearly be such a capital whereas mdynh refers to a province itself in such periods. By later times in Syriac it would seem that our word can also be used for any (larger?) unwalled settlement, i.e. "town" or "village", for which see U. Seidel, Altorientalische Forschungen 15(1988):143f., 152f. (but compare s.v. šṭḥ), or, as discussed below, for a "field".
See also s.v. qry #3 n.f.
The distinctive Syriac usage "field" is due to the similar semantic fields of the Greek underlying the early translations; compare the loanword ˀgwrs.
The various plurals in Syriac seem to be used differently by different authors; see, e.g., IshNum 114:29: ܐܓܘܪ̈ܣܐܼ ܩܘܪ̈ܝܣ܂ ܟܦܪ̈ܘܢܐܼ ܩܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܩܕܩ̈ܬܐ; i.e. the Greek-type plural is of "fields", the Aramaic-type "town".