baqar بَقَر , pl. ʔabqār, buqūr
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√BQR
cattle; n.un. cow – WehrCowan1979.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#310: from Sem *baḳar‑ ‘bull'¹, ‘cattle'², ‘cow'³.
▪ Kogan2011: from protCSem *baḳar‑ ‘large cattle’.
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BQR-1 […]. -2 *baqar- ‘gros bétail, bœufs, vaches’: Akk buqār- ‘bœuf’; Phoen bqr, Hbr bāqār ; Ar baqar, SAr bqr ‘gros bétail, bœufs, vaches’; Tham bqr ‘bœuf, jeune chameau (?)’; JP bᵊqartā, JP Syr Mnd baqrā, Talm baqqārā, buqrā, biqrā ‘troupeau’; SAr bqr ‘labourer’; Ar bayqaraẗ ‘biens, richesses’; Akk b/puq/gurru, Ar baqariyyaẗ ‘quartier de bœuf’; Te baqret ‘haut de la cuisse; quartier postérieur de la vache’; ? Ar bayqara ‘errer, aller à l’aventure; douter’, buqar ‘mensonges’. -3 […].
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#310: Akk buqāru¹ (with secondary u), Phn bqr², Hbr bāqār², Aram (Palest) bᵉqartā², SAr bqr², or Ḥrs beqār³.
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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#310: A hypothetical Sem *baḳar‑ ‘bull'¹, ‘cattle'², ‘cow'³ is probably the common ancestor of the Ar word as well as its Sem cognates. In the first syllable, Sem *a would be a regular development from AfrAs *‑o‑ after a labial, so that AfrAs *boḳar‑ ‘cattle’ can be reconstructed, bearing in mind that the Sem word has cognates also in Berb *buk˅r‑ ‘one year old camel’ and CCh *bwak˅r‑ ‘goat’. AfrAs *boḳar‑ itself may be derived from AfrAs *boḳ‑ ‘goat’. On the other hand, cf. AfrAs *baraḳ‑ ‘ram, goat, calf’.
▪ Lipiński1997#30.10 thinks the word can be segmented into root plus AfrAs “postpositive determinant” *‑l or *‑r “for domestic or tamed animals”, cf. also ʔimmar‑ ‘ram, lamb’, ʔayyil ‘deer’, ṯawr‑ ‘ox’, ǧamal ‘camel’, ḥimār‑ ‘donkey’, ḫinzīr ‘swine, pig’, ʕiǧl ‘calf’, ʕayr‑ ‘ass-fowl’, †karr‑ ‘lamb’, naml ‘ant’.
►baqaraẗ, pl. -āt, n.f., cow: f., n.un.
► baqarī, adj., n., 1 bovine, cattle-, cow- (in compunds); 2 beef (eg.): nsb-adj. | laḥm ~, n., beef
► baqqār, pl. -ẗ, n., cowhand, cowboy: n.prof. For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗baqara as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√BQR.
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