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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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bikr بِكْر , pl. ʔabkār 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BKR 
n. 
1a first-born, eldest; 1b firstling; 2 unprecedented, novel, new; 3a virgin; 3b virginal – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ From protSem *bukur‑ ‘*bikr‑ ‘*bak(u)r‑ ‘first-born’ – Huehnergard2011.
▪ The word may be the etymon proper of the whole root.
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘first-born’) Akk bukru, Hbr bḵōr, Syr buḵrā, Gz bakʷér.
 
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►bikrī, adj., first‑born, first: nisba formation of bikr.
►bikriyyaẗ, n.f., primogeniture: abstr. formation in ‑iyyaẗ.

For other related items, cf. ↗bakr, ↗bukraẗ, and, for the general picture, ↗√BKR. 
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