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√KBR, KBWRYʔ
(eg.) crab (zool.) – WehrCowan1979.
▪ Perh. from nGrk kábouras ‘crayfish’ (but cf. also, with metathesis, nGrk karabída ‘freshwater lobster’; Got kárabos, Lat carabus ‘sea crab, lobster’, accord. to Kluge2002 from an unknown source, gave oNor krabbi, oEngl crabba > Engl crab).
For other items of the root cf. ↗KBR, ↗kabīr, ↗kabar, ↗kūbrī, ↗kabārēh.
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