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√ṢFR
▪ ṢFR_1 ‘to whistle; bird’ ↗…
▪ ṢFR_2 ‘yellow’ ↗ʔaṣfar ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘whistle, to whistle, to utter a whistle-like sound; to become empty, void or vacant; to become yellow, (of plants) to wither away to the point of becoming yellow’
▪ [v1] Kogan2011: Ar ṣāfir ‘(birds other than birds of prey)’ can be traced back untio protWSem *ṣ˅p(p)˅r‑ ‘bird’ (but Akk ṣibāru ‘sparrow’).
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl cipher, zero, decipher, from Ar ṣifr ‘empty’ (loan translation of Skr śūnyam ‘cipher, dot’), from ṣafira ‘to be(come) empty, vacant’; Safar, from Ar ṣafar ‘Safar’, prob. from ṣafira (see above).↗
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