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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ḫawir‑ خَوِر , a (ḫawar), var. ḫār‑ / ḫur‑ خار , u (ḫuʔūr, ‑aẗ) 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḪWR 
vb., I 
to decline in force or vigor; to grow weak, spiritless, languid, to languish, flag; to dwindle, give out (strength) – WehrCowan1994 
▪ Tropper2008 suggests seeing the item together with Ug ḫwr ‘to be weak (horse)’ and Gz ḫəwwər ‘weak, strengthless’; to the latter may (acc. to Kogan2015 and DRS #ḪWR-1) perh. also belong some modSAr (Mhr, Jib, Soq) items meaning ‘a little’; alternatively, Tropper thinks Ug ḫwr could be cognate to Ar ḫāra ‘to low, moo’ (ḪWR_1) or to Ar ↗ḫarra ‘to fall down, sink to the ground’.

 
▪ HDAL: earliest attestation in this sense 570 AD.
▪ In pre-MSA texts, ḫāra / ḫawira is also attested as †‘to abate (heat); to soften (snow)’. 
▪ DRS 10 (2012) #ḪWR-1 Ar ḫāra ‘être faible, débile’, ḫawar ‘faiblesse, manque de vigueur’; EAr ḫār ‘s’ébouler (terre)’, Gz ḫəwwər ‘faible, invalide’, ? Mhr ḫawr, Jib ḫä́rín, Soq ḥarə́rən ‘un peu’.
▪ Kogan2015: 559 #51: For the modSAr forms Mhr ḫawr, Jib ḫɛ́rín, Soq ḥarə́rhɛn ‘a little’, Kogan reconstructs prot-modSAr *ḫūr‑, *ḫarr-˅n- ‘a little’, adding that the origin is uncertain »although A. Jahn’s comparison (1902:199) with Ar ḫwr ‘to be weak, feeble’ is not unreasonable, see further Gz ḫəwwur ‘weak, invalid’, Te ḥawärä ‘perdre la parole (de faiblesse)’«. »Semantically more attractive is M. Bittner’s equation (1915a:40-41) with Ar ḥwr ‘to decrease, be defective or deficient’ [ḤWR_3, ↗ḥāra], but one is reluctant to accept it because of the phonological difference.«
▪ Tropper2008: Ug ḫwr ‘to be weak (horse)’, Gz ḫəwwər ‘weak, strengthless’. Alternatively, Ug ḫwr could be cognate to Ar ↗ḫāra ‘to low, moo’ (ḪWR_1) or to Ar ↗ḫarra ‘to fall down, sink to the ground’.
▪ ? Ar †ḫawwāraẗ, n.f., hips, buttocks; †ḫūr, n.f.pl. (said to be pl. of sg. †ḫawwār, ‑aẗ, but regarded as pl.tantum by others) ‘women of ill fame’. – Cognates of ḫawira ‘to be weak (?hence also: soft)’ or rather to be seen together with ↗†ḫawrān ‘rectum, anus’?

 
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► ḫawar, n., weakness, fatigue, enervation, languor, lassitude
► ḫawwār, adj., weak, languid, strengthless
 
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