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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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bakr بَكْر , pl. ʔabkur, bukrān 
ID … • Sw – • BP 7869 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BKR 
n. 
young camel – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#196: from protSem *bakr- ʻyoung camelʼ, perh. from AfrAs *bak˅r- ʻyoung animalʼ.
▪ See also ↗√BKR and ↗bikr ‘first-born’. 
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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#196: Akk bakru, Hbr beker, SAr bkr, Mhr bōker, Śḥr okrit, Ḥrs bōker. – Outside Sem perh. Berb e-bakar, e-bəkər, a-bukir ‘lamb, kid’; but these may be loans from Sem.
▪ See also ↗√BKR and ↗bikr ‘first-born’. 
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#196: protSem *bakr- ʻyoung camelʼ (Akk, Hbr, SAr, Mhr, Śḥr, Ḥrs). If the Berb forms are not loans, one may reconstruct protBerb *b˅k˅r- ) ‘lamb, kid’. ProtSem and protBerb taken together, the common etymon could be AfrAs *bak˅r- ʻyoung animalʼ.
▪ See also ↗√BKR and ↗bikr ‘first-born’. 
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For related items, cf. ↗bikr, ↗bukraẗ, and, for the general picture, ↗√BKR. 
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