ʔarnab أرْنب , pl. ʔarānibᵘ
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√ʔRNB
hare; rabbit – WehrCowan1979.
▪ It seems safe to assume (with DRS) a protSem *ʔarnab‑ . Lipiński1997 thinks the word can be segmented into root plus AfrAs “postpositive determinant” *‑b “for wild and dangerous animals”.
▪ Cf. also Kogan2011: from protSem *ʔarnab(‑at)‑ ‘hare’.
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DRS 1 (1994): Akk arnab‑ , annab‑ , Hbr ʔarnebet, EmpAram ʔrnb, JP ʔarᵊnbā, ʔarnabtā, Syr ʔarnᵊbā, Ar ʔarnab, Har harbañño, ?Ug ʔanhb; ?Ar ʔarnabaẗ ‘extrémité du nez, naseaux’
▪ DRS 1 (1994): Sem *ʔarnab‑ ‘lièvre’
▪ Lipiński1997#30.10 thinks the word can be segmented into root plus AfrAs “postpositive determinant” *‑b “for wild and dangerous animals”, cf. also dubb ‘bear’, ḏiʔb‑ ‘wolf’, ḏubāb‑ ‘flies’, kalb ‘dog’, ʕankabūt‑ ‘spider’, ʕaqrab‑ ‘scorpion’, ġurāb‑ ‘crow, raven’, ṯaʕlab‑ ‘fox’.
▪ DRS 1 (1994) hesitates to derive ʔarnabaẗ in the sense of ‘tip of the nose’ from ‘hare’.
► ʔarnab hindī, n., guinea pig.
► ʔarnabaẗ, n.f., female hare, doe: f.; ʔ.aẗ al-ʔanf tip of the nose; nose, muzzle (of an animal).
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