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√ʕḎR
▪ ʕḎR_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ʕḎR_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ʕḎR_3 ‘...’ ↗... ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘courtyard; a refuse dump; faeces; to cleanse; to excuse, justification; to forgive; virginity, modesty; hair growing on the cheeks; to become difficult; landmark’
▪ From CSem *√ʕḎR ‘to help’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Ezra, from Hbr ʕezrāʔ, hypocoristic form of a name such as ʕazrîʔēl ‘God (is) my help’, from ʕazr‑, ʕezr‑, presuffixal form of ʕēzer ‘help’, cf. Ar ↗ʕaḏara (ʔēl ‘God’, cf. Ar ↗ʔilāh, ↗allāh); Lazarus, from Hbr ʔelʕāzār ‘God has helped’, from ʕāzār ‘he has helped’, lengthened form of ʕāzar ‘to help (ʔel ‘God’); Hasdrubal, from Lat Hasdrubāl, from Phoen (Pun) *ʕazrō-baʕl ‘his help (is) Baal’, from *ʕazrō ‘his help’, from ʕazr ‘help’, from *ʕzr ‘to help’ + *-ō ‘his’ (*baʕl ‘Baal’, cf. Ar ↗baʕl).
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