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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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bahar‑ بهر , a (bahr) 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BHR 
vb., I 
1 to glitter, shine. – 2 to dazzle, overwhelm – WehrCowan1979. 
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▪ DRS 2 (1994)#BHR-1: Akk buʔār‑ ‘prospérité, santé’1 , Hbr bāhīr‑ ‘brillant (?)’,2 nHbr bihēr ‘briller’, bāhōr ‘blanc, brillant’, JP ša-bhar ‘briller, glorifier’, Syr ša-bhar ‘glorifier’, šū-bhārā ‘gloire, orgueil’, Mand bhʔr (mod.), behar, bar ‘éclairer (?), briller’, NSyr bāhir ‘briller’, bāhrā, bārā ‘lumière’, bāhrānā, bārānā ‘brillant, lumineux’, *(m)bāhrin ‘être clair’, Ar bahara ‘briller, l’emporter en beauté’, bahr‑ ‘éclat de beauté’; ? Tña bəhar, bahar ‘grand, fort’, Te bäharat ‘qui poussent, germent’, Syr bāhrā, būhrā ‘crépuscule’, bahīrā, bahūrā(yā) ‘un peu obscur’; Akk biʔār‑ , Hbr baheret, JP bahartā ‘tache blanche sur la peau’. 
▪ Lane I 1863 considers [v2] as the primary one: ‘to overcome, overpower, subdue’, hence ‘to shine brightly’, the link being expressions like baharat-i ‘l-šamsu ‘-ʔarḍa ‘the light of the sun overspread the earth’.
▪ Any connection to BHR_2 ‘to gasp for air, pant, be exhausted’? Exhaustion and panting could be the result of BHR_1.
▪ If so, then Ehret1995#5 may be relevant here: Ar bahr ‘astonishment’ (hence ‘to dazzle, overcome, subdue’? – SG). The latter is interpreted as an extension in »diffusive« *‑r 1 from a bi-consonantal »pre-Proto-Semitic« (pPS, i.e. preSem) root *BH- ‘to sneak up on and surprise’ < AfrAs *‑bâh‑ ‘to go secretively’. – Other extensions from the same pre-Sem root: ↗√BHT • premodSAr bhɮ.
▪ Cf. also ↗√BHW/Y, ↗√BRQ, ↗√ṬHR.
 
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► buhira, vb. I, pass., to be out of breath, to pant: probably not belonging to BHR_1 but to BHR_2, cf. separate entry ↗buhr.
► ʔabhara, vb. IV, to glitter, shine; to dazzle, overwhelm:
► ĭnbahara, vb. VII, to be dazzled, blinded; to be smitten with blindness: pass. – For another meaning ↗buhr.
► ĭbtahara, vb. VIII, to flaunt, parade, show off, present in a dazzling light (bi‑ s.th.):.
► bahr, n., deception, dazzlement
► bahraẗ, n.f., being dazzled, dazzlement
► ʔabharᵘ, adj., more brilliant, more magnificent
► ĭbtihār, n., dazzling display, show (bi‑ of s.th.)
► bāhir, adj., dazzling, brilliant, splendid

For other items of the same root, cf. ↗√BHR. 

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