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√ḤRK
poker, fire iron – WehrCowan1976.
▪ While it might seem natural, from an inner-Ar perspective, to link miḥrāk ʻpoker, fire iron’ to the notion of ‘to move, stir’ (↗ḥarakaẗ), as *‘instrument with which to stir the fire’, a caveat is in place in light of the Ug Hbr Aram cognates, which have ‘fire, to burn, roast’ as their basic idea, not ‘to move, stir’. For further discussion, see root entry ↗√ḤRK.
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▪ DRS 9 (2010) #ḤRK-1 Ar haruka ‘se mouvoir’, harraka ‘déplacer, mouvoir’, Mhr ḥōrək, Jib oḥōrk, Ḥrs ḥārək ‘déplacer, agiter; faire un signe de tête’, Jib ənḥérək ‘se déplacer’. -2 […]. -3 Ug ḥrk ‘mettre au feu’, Hbr ḥārak ‘rôtir’, Aram ḥᵊrak ‘être chaud, brûler’, Ar miḥrāk ‘fourgon pour remuer le feu’. -4 […].
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▪ See above, section CONC.
For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ḥarakaẗ and ↗ḥārik, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ḤRK.
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