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EgAr wirwir وِرْوِر
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ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 27Jul2023
√WRWR
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1a crisp and young (vegetable vendor’s cry); b green, inexperienced (of people) – BadawiHinds1986
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▪ According to BadawiHinds1986 of Copt provenance. Corriente2008 gives Copt brre or bēre ‘new, young’, repeated in some vendors’ cries; cf. also BehnstedtWoidich2011: 258, remarking that the word refers to lambs.
▪ Cf. also DRS #WRWR-6 where the authors see it together with Te wirwirro ‘premiers fruits’.
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▪ DRS 7 (1997) #WRWR-1-5 [...]. -6 Te wirwirro ‘premiers fruits’, EgAr wirwir ‘frais, tendre, sain’. – Pour BadawiHinds1986: 934, le mot EgAr est d’origine Copt. -7-8 [...].
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►EgAr wirwiraẗ, n.f., pl. warāwir, 1a young chicken; b [slang] girl; c fresh produce! (vegetable vendor’s cry) – BadawiHinds1986

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗warwār as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗WRWR.
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