▪ 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’
▪ (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).↗