▪ Jeffery1938: 172-173: »With this should be associated all the other forms [occurring in the Qurʔān] derived therefrom and connected with drunkenness, e.g. iv, 46; xv, 15, 72; xxii, 2. – as-Suyūṭī,
Itq, 321 (
Mutaw, 40), tells us that some early authorities considered it an Ethiopic word. It is possible that the Eth [Gz]
sakra is the origin of the Ar word, but the word is widely used in the Semitic languages, e.g. Akk
šikaru (cf. [Hbr]
šāḵar ; [Syr]
šəḵar) ‘beer’;
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and Grk, e.g.
síkera.
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Thus while it may have come into Ar from Syr as most other wine terms did, on the other hand it may be a common derivation from early Semitic (Guidi,
Della Sede, 603).«
▪ Huehnergard2002 reconstructs a Common Sem n. *
šikar‑ ‘intoxicating drink’. Similarly Dolgopolsky2012#2032: Sem *
šikar‑ ~ *
šakar‑ ‘alcoholic drink’.
▪ On account of what he thinks are ‘cognates’ in Korean (MKor
sù ͉ìr ~
sù ͉ùr, NKor
su˥‑ < proto-Kor *
sù ͉ìr ‘wine, alcoholic drink’), Dolgopolsky reconstructs Nostr *
s̄2˅˹k˺˅R˅ (or *
s̄˅Ḳ˅R˅) ‘intoxicating drink’ ([in descendant languages] ↗‘alcoholic drink’) – Dolgopolsky2012#2032.
▪ Any relation to ↗
SKR‑ ‘’?