▪ Cf. above, section CONC, as well as individual entries.
▪ Badawi&AbdelHaleem2008 seem to regard ‘hoof’ as the primary value, but this is not supported by the overall Sem evidence.
▪ The presentation in
DRS is not convincing. #ḤPR-2 ‘to research, explore’ is very likely to be fig. use of #ḤPR-1 (<*‘digging’ into a matter, a problem). For #ḤPR-5 cf. ḤFR_3 in section CONC above. (#ḤPR-3 and #ḤPR-4 seem to be irrelevant for Ar.)
▪ Ehret1995#744 posits an Ar
ḥafr (vn.) with the meaning ‘to lie with’ and regards this as an extension in »diffusive« *
‑r, derived from a bi-consonantal preprotSem √*ḤP ‘to put down’ < AfrAs *
‑ḥaf‑ ‘to lay’.
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However, ‘to lie with’ is hardly an independent value; rather, it is fig. use of ‘to dig’ (< *a man ‘digging’ into a woman), cf. above, section HIST.
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