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▪ Although ʔayr looks like an old word for ‘penis’, it has no direct cognates in Sem. Given that Akk ayaru (āru) ‘young man’ may be a loan (with *ʕ > ʔ) from WSem (so von Soden, AHW 25; cf. Ar ↗ʕayyār ‘vagabond, vagrant’, from ↗ʕāra ‘to wander, stray, rove’, Hbr ʕYR ‘to go away, go hither and thither, etc.’), a similar relation to the same ʕayyār is not inconceivable (considered also by the authors of DRS), especially so since the ʕayyārūn, who were »paramilitary chivalric bands that constituted an important element in premodern Islamic society, primarily in the pre-Mongol Middle East (the Mashriq) and the eastern Iranian lands«,¹ were always associated with masculinity. – ? Cf. also ^†ʔār ‘shame’ (for ʕār ‘id.’), see ↗^†ʔWR_3 ?
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1. D. Tor, art. »ʕayyār«, in ³EI.

hist

▪ ʔayr: pl. (pauc.) ^†ʔāyur, ^†ʔāyār, (mult.) ʔuyūr, ^†ʔuyur; cf. also the expr. kāna ʔayru-hū ṭawīlan ‘he had many male children’
▪ Cf. also (BK1860, Lane i 1863, Wahrmund1886): ^†ʔāra (i, ʔayr), rarely also ʔāra (u, ʔawr, hence grouped in some dictionaries s.r. ʔWR), vb. I, ‘forcer une femme et cohabiter avec elle | inivit eam; he compressed her’; ^†ʔāʔir (PA I) ‘iniens’, ^†maʔīr (PP I) ‘penetrated’, ^†miʔyar, ^†maʔīr, ^†muʔayyir ‘qui multum coit’; ^†ʔayyara (II) ‘cohabiter fréquemment avec une femme’, ^†ʔuyārī ‘having a large membrum virile, or penis (like ʔunāfī ‘having a large nose’); ^†ʔayyir ‘dur, très-dur (se dit d’une pierre, etc.)’
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cogn

▪ DRS 1 (1994) ʔYR-1 Ar ʔayr ‘penis, verge’. -2 Akk ayyar‑ (et āru?) ‘jeune homme’. -3-6 […].
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deriv

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ʔayyārᵘ as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ʔYR.

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