Bibliotheca Polyglotta

▪ QRW_3 ‘to approach s.o.; to betake o.s., wend o.’s way, turn to’
▪ QRW_4 ‘back’ (n.)
▪ QRW_5 ‘manner, mode; custom’
▪ QRW_6 ‘to collect, store’
▪ QRW_7 ‘hydrocele, hernia, orchiocele/scrotal hernia’.

Partial overlap with ↗QRY.

Not related but loanword: ↗qayrawān ‘caravan’.

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▪ The two main/basic values of QRW seem to be [v3] ‘to approach, turn to’ and [v4] ‘back’ (n.), both obsolete in MSA. The other values probably either depend on one of these two, or on a value of ↗QRY (with which QRW items often overlap).
▪ [v1] ‘water trough’ : probably from ↗QRY rather than QRW.
▪ [v2] ‘to follow up, investigate, check’ : probably dependent on [v3] ‘to approach, turn to’, but perhaps also from QRY_2 ‘settlement’ (↗qaryaẗ) or from QRY_4 ‘to flow together’ (*‘to range the country in search of a standpost’ > ‘to check out’, ↗QRY).
▪ Any connection between [v3] ‘to approach, turn to’ and [v4] ‘back’ (n.) which are likely to be the primary values of √QRW ?
▪ [v4] ‘back’ (n.) and [v5] ‘manner, custom’ obviously have no successor MSA.
▪ The same holds true for [v6] ‘to collect, store’ and [v7] ‘hydrocele, hernia, orchiocele’. In addition, these two derive from ↗QRY rather than from QRW.

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▪ [v1] ‘water trough’ probably belongs to the notion of ‘flowing together, collecting’ (of water, sap, etc.), treated under ↗QRY, rather than to any of the QRW values. Especially, it could also be thought to be at the origin of ↗qarà ‘to receive hospitably, treat as a guest’ (< give to drink to the animals from a trough, or to the guest from a cup or bowl).
▪ [v2] ‘to follow’ is usually thought to derive from [v3] ‘to approach, turn to’ and grouped here accordingly (as also in many dictionaries of MSA and ClassAr) under QRW. But since forms V and X of 3ae inf. vb.s do not distinguish between w and y as R3, ¹ these items may just as well be denom. from ↗QRY_2 ‘settlement’ (*‘to turn from one ↗qaryaẗ to the next’) or from ↗QRY_4 ‘to flow together’ (*‘to range the country in search of a standpost’ > ‘to check out’).
▪ [v3] ‘to approach s.o.; to betake o.s., wend o.’s way, turn to’ is mentioned as the first value of vb. I ^†qarā, u, in ClassAr dictionaries. Cf., however, also the vb. I ^†qarà, i, ‘to travel from land to land’, traditionally grouped under QRY.
▪ [v4] ‘back (of an animal etc.)’ has become obsolete in MSA, but is represented in ClassAr by items like ^†qaran قرا (det. ‑ā, pl. ʔaqrāʔ ‘back’, vb. IV ^†ʔaqrà ‘to to have pain in the back; to keep the saddlecloth on the back of an animal’, ^†qarawān ‘back, middle part of the back’, ^†qarwāʔᵘ ‘qui a le dos très-long; qui a la bosse très-allongée (chamelle); derrière, fesses’. Relation to [v3] ‘to approach s.o.; to betake o.s., wend o.’s way, turn to’ unclear.
▪ [v5] ‘manner, custom’: obsolete in MSA, but cf. ClassAr ^†qarw ‘manière, façon, mode’ (as in raʔaytuhum ʕalà qarwin wāḥidin ‘je les ai trouvés suivant tous les mêmes usages (ou la même manière de vivre)’, ^†qarwāʔᵘ ‘habitude, coutume’. Related to [v3] ‘to follow up, search’ (in the sense of ‘to follow s.o.’s habits’? Relation to [v4] ‘back’ seems unlikely.
▪ [v6] ‘to collect, to store’ (as in ^†qaran, det. ‑ā, pl. ʔaqrāʔ, n., ‘courge vidée dans laquelle on conserve des mets’) is treated under QRY.
▪ [v7] ‘hydrocele, hernia, orchiocele/scrotal hernia’ [ClassAr ^†qarw ‘gonflement du scrotum’; vb. I ^†qarā, u, ‘se gonfler, être enflé (se dit du scrotum affecté d’un hydrocèle ou d’un sarcocèle)’, vb. X ^†ĭstaqrà ‘être rempli, gonflé de pus (se dit d’un abcès)’] obviously builds on the notion of ‘collecting, flowing together’ and is therefore treated under QRY.

1. Cf. also, in ClassAr, the ambiguous vbs. V, VIII, and X, ^†taqarrà ‘to travel across the country, cross the lands, perambulate, to go/run from place to place (in pursuit of s.th.)’, ^†ĭqtarà and ^†ĭstaqrà ‘to cross, range, perambulate the country, travel, wend o.’s way, visit’, whence (?) the meaning ‘to observe, investigate’, as in vb. I ^†qarà, i, ‘to observe, follow with o.’s eyes’; ^†qāriyaẗ, qāriyyaẗ, pl. qawārī ‘qui suit qn et épie toutes ses actions’; vbs. VIII and X, ^†ĭqtarà, ĭstaqrà, ‘to strive after s.th. with perseverance’.

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