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▪ For ḪRF_1 cf. DRS 10 (2012) s.v. ḪRP-3: Hbr *ḥārap ‘railler, insulter’ [BDB ḥārap̄ ‘to reproach’, prop. ‘to say sharp things against’, cf. Aram ḥᵃrap̄‑ ‘reproach’, Syr ḥarep ‘to sharpen’, ḥarīp ‘sharp, keen’, (CAD) Akk ḫarāpu (ḫarābu)‑ ‘to cut’], Ar ḫarifa ‘avoir le cerveau troublé, délirer, radoter (vieillard)’, Maġr ḫarrəf, or. ḫarraf ‘débiter des balivernes, radoter’, ḫrāfa ‘conte’, Jib ḫarof ‘débiter des absurdités, des inepties’.

For ḪRF_2 cf. ibid 10 (2012) s.v. ḪRP-2: Akk ḫarāpu (also ḫarābu) ‘être précoce’ [CAD ‘to be early’], ḫarp‑ ‘précoce’ [CAD ḫarpu ‘early’], ḫarpū (pl.) ‘autumn’ [CAD ḫarpū plurale tantum 1. (OA only) ‘(early) harvest’, 2. ‘summer’], ? Ug ḫrpnt ‘autumn’, Hbr ḥoręp‑ ‘autumn, autumn and winter’ [BDB ḥoräp̄ ‘harvest-time, autumn’], Ar ḫarīf ‘autumn, autumn rain’, ḫarāf ‘temps de la récolte des fruits’, YemAr ḫarīf ‘année (en cours)’, Maġr ḫrīf ‘arrière-saison, automne’, ḫrəf ‘passer de saison, cesser de donner des fruits’, Sab Qat ḫrf ‘autumn’, Qat ‘autumn harvest, year’, Mhr ḫarf, Jib ḫorf ‘période des pluies de mousson (de juin au début de septembre)’, Soq ḥorf, Hars ḫōref ‘autumn’, Gz ḫarif ‘l’année en cours’. – Akk ḫurāp‑ ‘mouton de l’année’ [CAD ḫurāpu adj. ‘spring (lamb/kid)’, from OB on], Ug ? ḫrpt ‘brebis (?)’, Syr ḥūrpā ‘brebis d’un an’, Ar ḫarūf ‘agneau, jeune mouton mâle, jeule poulain’, Min ḫrf ‘mouton (?)’. – [CAD ḫurpu ‘early crop’] Ar ḫarīf ‘cueilli (fruit), feuille d’automne, feuille tombée’ [BDB ‘freshly gathered fruit’], YemAr taḫarraf ‘to harvest’, Mhr ḫayref ‘mûrir, fleurir’, Jib ḫerf ‘produire des fruits’, Soq ḥorf ‘fruit, récolte’, Ḥars ḫōref ‘cueillir’. – ḫerefōt ‘petit lièvre’.

While ḪRF_1 and ḪRF_2 really seem to be different items,¹ the relation within ḪRF_2 between ‘autumn, fall’ (↗ḫarīf) and ‘lamb’ (↗ḫarūf) is probably the fact that the lamb is called after the season, or a one year-old lamb after the return of the season in which it was born, a lamb thus being ‘the fall-born’. Cf. cognates as quoted from DRS above.

1. It seems problematic to assume a relation between the ‘autumn’/‘lamb’ complex on the one hand, and ‘talk foolishly’ on the other. The only possible connection I [S.G.] could imagine is that, if ‘to cut’ (as preserved in Akk and Syr) is the oldest meaning, then ‘autumn’ could be the *‘season of cutting, harvesting’, and the values ‘current year’ and ‘lamb’ could in turn be derived from this latter: ‘season of harvesting’ > *‘yearly return of the season of harvesting’ > *‘yearly return’ > a) ‘(current) year’; b)… > *‘one year old lamb’ or… > *‘lamb that is slaughtered after one year’ > ‘lamb’.

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► ḫarifa, a (ḫaraf), vb. I: ↗ḫaraf
► ḫarrafa, vb. II: ↗ḫaraf
► ḫarif and ► ḫarfān, adj. : ↗ḫaraf
► ^BP#3094ḫarīf, n.: ↗s.v.
► ḫarīfī, adj.: ↗ḫarīf
► , n.: ↗s.v.
► ḫurāfaẗ, n. : ↗ḫaraf
► ḫurāfī, adj. ↗ḫurāfaẗ
► maḫrafaẗ, n. ↗ḫaraf
► taḫrīf, n. ↗ḫaraf
► muḫarrif, adj./n., ↗ḫaraf

ḫaraf خَرَف ¹

1. The n. is given as the etymon here, but one could imagine also the vb. ḫarifa or the adj. ḫarif to be the item the derivations are made from.

√ḪRF

feeble-mindedness, dotage, senility; childishness (of an old man) – WehrCowan1979.

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▪ DRS 10 (2012) s.v. ḪRP-3: Hbr *ḥārap ‘railler, insulter’ [BDB ḥārap̄ ‘to reproach’, prop. ‘to say sharp things against’, cf. Aram ḥᵃrap̄‑ ‘reproach’, Syr ḥarep ‘to sharpen’, ḥarīp ‘sharp, keen’, (CAD) Akk ḫarāpu (ḫarābu)‑ ‘to cut’], Ar ḫarifa ‘avoir le cerveau troublé, délirer, radoter (vieillard)’, Maġr ḫarrəf, or. ḫarraf ‘débiter des balivernes, radoter’, ḫrāfa ‘conte’, Jib ḫarof ‘débiter des absurdités, des inepties’.

▪ Probably unrelated to ↗ḫarīf ‘autumn, fall’ or ↗ḫarūf ‘lamb’.
▪ Cf. ↗√ḪRF for the overall picture.

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► ḫarifa, a (ḫaraf), vb. I, to dote, be senile and feeble-minded; to drivel, talk foolishly: denominative (unless the vb. itself is the etymon).
► ḫarrafa, vb. II, to dote, be senile and feeble-minded; to drivel, talk foolishly: intensive formation, denominative or from I or the adj. ḫarif.
► ḫarif and ḫarfān, adj., feebleminded, doting; childish; n., dotard: While ḫarfān is clearly secondary (and intensive in ‑ān), ḫarif can be an adj. formation from the vb. ḫarifa or the n./vn. ḫarafa, or be itself the etymon from which the other forms are derived.
► ḫurāfaẗ, n.f., pl. ‑āt, superstition; fable, fairy tale:.
► ḫurāfī, adj., fabulous, fictitious, legendary: nsb-adj from ḫurāfaẗ.
► maḫrafaẗ, n.f., prattle, drivel, twaddle, bosh:.
► taḫrīf, n., folly, delusion; foolish talk, drivel, twaddle, bosh, buncombe: lexicalized vn. II.
► muḫarrif, adj., childish, foolish: PA II; n., (pl. ‑ūn) prattler, chatterbox, windbag; charlatan: nominalized PA II

ḫarīf خَرِيف

√ḪRF

autumn, fall – WehrCowan1979.

▪ Kogan2011: from protSem *ḥ˅rp‑ ‘autumn’.
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▪ Fronzaroli#3.: Akk ḫarpu ‘early, precocious’, (Ass.) ḫarpū (pl.) ‘autumn’, Hbr ḥōrep, Syr ḥurpā ‘one year-old lamb’, Ar ḫarīf ‘autumn’, ḫarūf ‘lamb’, SAr ḫrf ‘autumn, year’, Gz ḫarīf ‘current year’.
▪ Kogan2011: Akk ḫarpu ‘autumn’, (? Ug ḫrpnt,) Hbr ḥōräp, Ar ḫarīf ‘autumn; (also: year)’, SAr ḫrf ‘year’, Gz ḫarif ‘current year’, Mhr ḫarf, Jib. ḫɔrf, Soq ḥorf ‘autumn’.
▪ DRS 10 (2012) s.v. ḪRP-2: Akk ḫarāpu (also ḫarābu)‑ ‘être précoce’ [CAD ‘to be early’], ḫarp‑ ‘précoce’ [CAD ḫarpu ‘early’], ḫarpū (pl.) ‘autumn’ [CAD ḫarpū plurale tantum 1. (OA only) ‘(early) harvest’, 2. ‘summer’], ? Ug ḫrpnt ‘autumn’, Hbr ḥoręp‑ ‘autumn, autumn and winter’ [BDB ḥoräp̄ ‘harvest-time, autumn’], Ar ḫarīf ‘autumn, autumn rain’, ḫarāf ‘temps de la récolte des fruits’, YemAr ḫarīf ‘année (en cours)’, Maġr ḫrīf ‘arrière-saison, automne’, ḫrəf ‘passer de saison, cesser de donner des fruits’, Sab Qat ḫrf ‘autumn’, Qat ‘autumn harvest, year’, Mhr ḫarf, Jib ḫorf ‘période des pluies de mousson (de juin au début de septembre)’, Soq ḥorf, Hars ḫōref ‘autumn’, Gz ḫarif ‘l’année en cours’. – Akk ḫurāp‑ ‘mouton de l’année’ [CAD ḫurāpu adj. ‘spring (lamb/kid)’, from OB on], Ug ? ḫrpt ‘brebis (?)’, Syr ḥūrpā ‘brebis d’un an’, Ar ḫarūf ‘agneau, jeune mouton mâle, jeule poulain’, Min ḫrf ‘mouton (?)’. – [CAD ḫurpu ‘early crop’] Ar ḫarīf ‘cueilli (fruit), feuille d’automne, feuille tombée’ [BDB ‘freshly gathered fruit’], YemAr taḫarraf ‘to harvest’, Mhr ḫayref ‘mûrir, fleurir’, Jib ḫerf ‘produire des fruits’, Soq ḥorf ‘fruit, récolte’, Ḥars ḫōref ‘cueillir’. – ḫerefōt ‘petit lièvre’.

▪ Fronzaroli#3.31: Sem *ḫarup‑ ‘early (Fr/It precoce)’.
▪ Kogan2011: Sem *ḫ˅rp‑ ‘autumn’.
▪ Probably unrelated to ↗ḫaraf ‘foolish talk’.
▪ For the semantic connection between ḫarīf ‘autumn, fall’ and ḫarūf ‘lamb’ ↗s.v..
▪ See also ↗√ḪRF for the overall picture.

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► ḫarīfī, adj., autumnal: nsb-adj from ḫarīf

ḫarūf خَرُوف , pl. ḫirāf , ʔaḫrifaẗ , ḫirfān

√ḪRF

young sheep, lamb, yearling; wether – WehrCowan1979.

The word seems to be akin to ↗ḫarīf ‘autumn, fall’, the original meaning being ‘yearling’ or *‘the fall-born’.
▪ Kogan2011: from protSem *ḫ˅r˅p‑ ‘lamb’ (?).
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▪ According to DRS 10 (2012) s.v. ḪRP-2, ḫarūf is connected to ḫarīf ‘autumn’: Akk ḫarāpu (also ḫarābu)‑ ‘être précoce’ [CAD ‘to be early’], ḫarp‑ ‘précoce’ [CAD ḫarpu ‘early’], ḫarpū (pl.) ‘autumn’ [CAD ḫarpū plurale tantum 1. (OA only) ‘(early) harvest’, 2. ‘summer’], ? Ug ḫrpnt ‘autumn’, Hbr ḥoręp‑ ‘autumn, autumn and winter’ [BDB ḥoräp̄ ‘harvest-time, autumn’], Ar ḫarīf ‘autumn, autumn rain’, ḫarāf ‘temps de la récolte des fruits’, YemAr ḫarīf ‘année (en cours)’, Maġr ḫrīf ‘arrière-saison, automne’, ḫrəf ‘passer de saison, cesser de donner des fruits’, Sab Qat ḫrf ‘autumn’, Qat ‘autumn harvest, year’, Mhr ḫarf, Jib ḫorf ‘période des pluies de mousson (de juin au début de septembre)’, Soq ḥorf, Hars ḫōref ‘autumn’, Gz ḫarif ‘l’année en cours’. – Akk ḫurāp‑ ‘mouton de l’année’ [CAD ḫurāpu adj. ‘spring (lamb/kid)’, from OB on], Ug ? ḫrpt ‘brebis (?)’, Syr ḥūrpā ‘brebis d’un an’, Ar ḫarūf ‘agneau, jeune mouton mâle, jeule poulain’, Min ḫrf ‘mouton (?)’. – [CAD ḫurpu ‘early crop’] Ar ḫarīf ‘cueilli (fruit), feuille d’automne, feuille tombée’ [BDB ‘freshly gathered fruit’], YemAr taḫarraf ‘to harvest’, Mhr ḫayref ‘mûrir, fleurir’, Jib ḫerf ‘produire des fruits’, Soq ḥorf ‘fruit, récolte’, Ḥars ḫōref ‘cueillir’. – ḫerefōt ‘petit lièvre’.

Probably unrelated to ↗ḫaraf ‘foolish talk’. For the overall picture ↗√ḪRF.

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