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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ṣāqūr صاقُور 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ṢQR 
n. 
stone axe – WehrCowan1979. 
With all probability via Aram/Syr from Lat secūr-is ‘axe, hatchet, cleaver’ (cf. oEngl seax ‘knife’, No saks ‘scissors’, Ge Säge ‘saw’). 
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See DISC. 
▪ It seems to be safe to follow Fraenkel1886 who has no doubts that Ar ṣāqūr goes back, via Aram sqūriyā [Brockelmann1895: Syr sîqûrâ ] to Lat secūr-is ‘axe, hatchet, cleaver (battle axe, tomahawk, etc.)’, from sec-āre ‘to cut, amputate’, from IE (W/Eur) *sek- ‘to cut’ (pGerm *sago ‘a cutting tool’ > oHGe sega, saga > Ge Säge ‘saw’; oEngl sagu > Engl saw; cf. also oEngl seax ‘knife’, No saks ‘scissors’). »Auffallend kann nur das Eine sein, dass das aramäische s durch ṣ transcribiert wurde, was sonst nicht leicht vorkommt« (the only thing that may raise some doubt is that Aram s has been made into ṣ, which does not happen easily); however, taking into consideration some other evidence, it is safe to assume that this does not affect the correctness of the etymology. 
▪ Ar ṣāqūr is not in itself the source of, but derived from the same Lat etymon as Eur words for ‘saw’, ‘knife’, or ‘scissors’, cf. DISC above. 
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ṢQLB صقلب
 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 26Feb2023
√ṢQLB 
“root” 
▪ ṢQLB_1 ‘Slav’ ↗ṣaqlab

Other values, now obsolete, include (BK1860):

▪ †ṢQLB_2 ‘hard; strong, robust, eating much (camel); hard and strong (head, skull)’: †¹ṣiqlāb
▪ †ṢQLB_3 ‘white’: †²ṣiqlāb
▪ †ṢQLB_4 ‘red’: †³ṣiqlāb
 
▪ [v1] : ? With partly retrograde assimilation (ṣ‑ < s under the influence of following q), from ↗saqlab(ī) ‘Slav’?
▪ [v2] : ? Cf. ↗ṣulb ? Meaning first attested eC8. – Any relation to [v1] ‘Slav’ (sometimes also ‘slave’)?
▪ [v3] : etymology obscure. – Any relation to the fact that the Slavs (who often served as slaves) were of white complexion? In contrast, ‘Ethiopians’ could be termed ṣaqālibaẗ al-zanǧ ‘the negro\black Slavs (= slaves?)’.
▪ [v4] : etymology obscure. – Like [v3] ‘white’, also ‘red’ may have emerged as an attribute of Slavic slaves.
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▪ [v2] : first attestation in the expression bayna maqaḏḏay raʔsihī l-ṣiqlābi, by Ǧandal b. Muṯannà al-Ṭuhawī (dated 709 in DHDA).
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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▪ [v1] Not from Ar ṣaqlab but from the same source are Eur words for the ‘Slavs’; see ↗saqlabī.
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