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▪ Akk ¹paḫāru ‘potter’ (also oAkk as n.prop., family name) < Sum; > BiblAram päḥār ‘potter’, BabylAram paḥḥārā ‘potter’, Syr paḥḥārā ‘potter’, (denom.) paḥḥar ‘to harden (clay in the sun); to crack’, eṯpaḥḥar ‘to be formed (as by a potter); to get broken, cracked’
▪ Does one also have to consider cognates sharing the general notion of ‘gathering, assembling’? See, e.g., Akk ²paḫāru (G) ‘to gather, assemble (intr.), (people, city, land; goods, silver) accumulate, (smoke, sweat) ‘collect’; Gtn iter.; (D) ‘to bring together, assemble’ (trans.) (people, goods, commodities, waters); (Dtn) iter. of D; > puḫru ‘assembly, gathering’, puḫriš, adv., ‘in assembly, together’; puḫḫuru ‘assembled’; mupaḫḫirum ‘collector’; napḫaru ‘total, sum, entirety’; tapḫarum, tapḫīrum ‘(a temple collection?)’, tapḫūrum ‘assembly (of supplicants)’, tapḫurtu ‘assembly, company’ (Black2000), Ug pḫr /puḫru/ ‘assembly’ (Tropper2008), Syr puḥrā ‘banquet; mess, assembly, company’ (PayneSmith).
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▪ Fraenkel1886: 257 assumes that in Ar, the basic meaning of the root FḪR is *‘to puff o.s. up (to show off)’ and insinuates a relation to ‘pottery’, though remaining silent about the details (“Im Arabischen ist die Wurzel nur noch in der übertragenen Bedeutung ‘aufgeblasen sein’ erhalten” – ibid.).
▪ Is the Akk Ug Syr value ‘to gather, assemble’ perh. related to ‘potter(y)’, likening the assembling of things or people to the act of forming clay?
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►faḫḫārī, 1a adj., potter’s, earthen: nsb-formation; b n., potter: nominalized nsb-formation
►fāḫūraẗ, n.f., pottery, earthenware manufactory
►fāḫūrī, n., potter

For other values associated with the ‘root’, cf. ↗faḫira / faḫara as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗FḪR.

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