ID 398 • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√SKR
to shut, close, lock, bolt (s.th.) (chiefly syr., leb.) – WehrCowan1979.
Ass sekēru (sakāru) ‘to dam up; close, clog (a canal, a watercourse); to block (part of the body, e.g., to stop ears)’, sikkūru (sukkūru, sukīru) ‘bar, bolt (as locking device)’, Hbr sāḵar ‘to shut up, stop up’, Aram səḵar, Syr səḵar ‘to shut up, stup up, dam up’.
▪ BDB 1906/2010: apparently kindr. with [Hbr] sgr‑ ‘to shut, close’. – Cf. Klein1987: Ug sgr‑ ‘to shut, close’, AramSyr səḡar‑ ‘to shut up, confine, seclude’, Akk sakāru‑ ‘to close’, šigaru‑ (sigaru) ‘door lock; cage’ (cad : ‘part of a lock; probably the bolt or bar’). – Cf. Ar ↗√SǦN.
▪ BDB 1906/2010: > Eg t’akar‑ ‘barrier’.
▪ Apparently not related to the theme ‘intoxicating drink, drunkenness’ (↗√SKR, ↗sakar).
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