concEtymology unclear. The word may be a local variant of ↗saykurān, but it may also be the other way round; phonologically, neither of these hypotheses sounds convincing. Given the toxic/narcotic effect of henbane, a connection with the Sem root *ŠḪR ‘to be(come) fearful, numb, stock-still’ should not be excluded, see ↗SḪR.