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√KRKR
1 ↗¹karkara; 2 to rumble (stomach) | karkara fī ’l-ḍaḥk, to burst into loud laughter, roar with laughter; 3 ↗³karkara – WehrCowan1976
▪ onomatopoetic, imitating several types of sound: the rumbling of a stomach, roaring laughter, (obsol.) murmuring water, etc.; cf. also the 2-cons. ↗¹karra ‘to rattle in the throat’ and the obsol. †karkara ‘to call (hens)’.
▪ Prob. related to the notion of ‘returning’, ‘repetition’ inherent in this type of sounds; if valid, ²karkara may be related to ¹karkara ‘to repeat, reiterate, do repeatedly’, itself based on ↗KRː (KRR).
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▪ Hava1899: karkara, (also:) †‘to murmur (water)’; karkaraẗ ‘stomach rumble, borborygmus’
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▪ ↗¹karkara, ↗¹karra.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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►karkaraẗ, n.f., 1 loud laughter; 2 rumbling (of the stomach): vn./n.vic. For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗¹karkara and ↗³karkara as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗KRKR. – Cf. also ↗KRː (KRR), ↗KRW, ↗KRW/Y, and ↗KRY.
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