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√QRB
▪ QRB_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ QRB_2 ‘sacrifice, gift offered to God’ ↗qurbān
▪ QRB_3 ‘…’ ↗… ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘closeness; proximity; to be, or become near; to moderate; kinship, relatives, companions; to hurry; to seek, seek water sources, drive livestock to water sources, waterskin; scabbard, sheath; small boat; sacrifice’.
▪ From protSem *√QRB ‘to be(come) near, draw near’ – Huehnergard2011.
▪ qurbān, an offering, could be an early borrowing from Syr – BAH2008.
▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘to approach’) Akk qrb (i/u), Hbr qrb e (a), Syr qrb e (u), Gz qrb – (a).
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